Comb-push ultrasound shear elastography (CUSE) with various ultrasound push beams

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1435-1447

  Song, Pengfei ^a   Urban, Matthew W ^b   Manduca, Armando ^b   Zhao, Heng ^b   Greenleaf, James F ^b   Chen, Shigao ^b  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b MAYO GRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic radiation force; comb push; comb push ultrasound shear elastography (CUSE); focused ultrasound beam; shear wave; ultrasound elastography; unfocused ultrasound beam

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC RADIATION FORCE; COMB PUSHES; ELASTOGRAPHY; FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; ULTRASOUND ELASTOGRAPHY; UNFOCUSED ULTRASOUND BEAMS;

ACOUSTIC EMISSIONS; ACOUSTIC RADIATORS; ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; ACOUSTIC WAVE TRANSMISSION; DATA ACQUISITION; ELASTICITY; EXPERIMENTS; MEDICAL IMAGING; SHEAR WAVES; SPEED; TISSUE; ULTRASONICS;

ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

ACOUSTIC RADIATION FORCE IMPULSE IMAGING; ARTICLE; ELASTOGRAPHY; FOCUSED COMB PUSH ULTRASOUND SHEAR ELASTOGRAPHY; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; IMAGING PHANTOM; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MARCHING COMB PUSH ULTRASOUND SHEAR ELASTOGRAPHY; PRESERVATION; SHEAR FLOW; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SOFT TISSUE; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER; VELOCITY;

ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, MAMMARY;

EID: 84881436478     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2013.2257831     Document Type: Article

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