Noninvasive vascular elastography using plane-wave and sparse-array imaging

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 332-342

  Korukonda, Sanghamithra ^a   Nayak, Rohit ^a   Carson, Nancy ^b   Schifitto, Giovanni ^b   Dogra, Vikram ^b   Doyley, Marvin M ^a  

^a University of Rochester   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC BEAMS; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CAROTID ARTERY; CARTESIAN COORDINATE; CIRCUMFERENTIAL STRAIN; CLINICAL SETTINGS; ECHO IMAGING; ELASTOGRAMS; ELASTOGRAPHY; IMAGING METHOD; IN-VIVO; LINEAR TRANSDUCER ARRAY; NON-INVASIVE VASCULAR ELASTOGRAPHY; NORMAL STRAIN; PLANE WAVE; PLAQUE RUPTURE; POLAR COORDINATE; POTENTIAL PROBLEMS; PRECLINICAL STUDIES; SIDE LOBES; STRAIN DISTRIBUTIONS; TRANSMIT POWER; TRANSVERSE PLANES; VESSEL PHANTOM;

ACOUSTICS; MEDICAL IMAGING;

STRAIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ADULT; CAROTID ARTERIES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MALE; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84873882934     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2013.2569     Document Type: Article

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