Real-time quantitative elasticity imaging of deep tissue using free-hand conventional ultrasound

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 7511 LNCS, Issue , 2012, Pages 617-624

  Baghani, Ali ^a   Eskandari, Hani ^a   Wang, Weiqi ^a   Da Costa, Daniel ^a   Lathiff, Mohamed Nabil ^a   Sahebjavaher, Ramin ^a   Salcudean, Septimiu ^a   Rohling, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; ELASTICITY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MEDICAL COMPUTING; MEDICAL IMAGING; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

ELASTICITY IMAGES; ELASTICITY IMAGING; HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ELASTOGRAPHY; QUANTITATIVE IMAGES; TISSUE DISPLACEMENT; ULTRASOUND ELASTOGRAPHY; ULTRASOUND SYSTEM;

TISSUE;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SYSTEM; ELASTOGRAPHY; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MINIATURIZATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84872926924     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-33418-4_76     Document Type: Conference Paper

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