Acoustic Waves in Medical Imaging and Diagnostics

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1133-1146

  Sarvazyan, Armen P ^a   Urban, Matthew W ^b   Greenleaf, James F ^b  

^a ARTANN Laboratories Inc   (United States)

^b MAYO GRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic imaging; Anisotropy; Compressional wave; Dispersion; Elasticity; Shear wave; Viscoelasticity

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC IMAGING; ACOUSTICS; ANISOTROPY; DISPERSION (WAVES); ELASTICITY; MEDICAL IMAGING; SHEAR WAVES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; VISCOELASTICITY;

ACOUSTIC WAVELENGTH; BIOLOGICAL TISSUES; COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS; COMPRESSIONAL WAVES; IMAGING APPLICATIONS; IMAGING MODALITY; SHEAR WAVE IMAGING; ULTRASOUND IMAGING;

ACOUSTIC WAVES;

ACOUSTIC TECHNOLOGY; ANISOTROPY; B SCAN; COMPRESSIONAL WAVE; ELASTOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ELASTOGRAPHY; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SHEAR ACOUSTIC IMAGING; SHEAR FLOW; SHEAR WAVE; TRANSIENT ELASTOGRAPHY; VIBRIO ACOUSTOGRAPHY; VISCOELASTICITY; YOUNG MODULUS;

EID: 84878660438     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: 1879291X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2013.02.006     Document Type: Review

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