Validation of shear wave elastography in skeletal muscle

Journal of Biomechanics

Volumn 46, Issue 14, 2013, Pages 2381-2387

  Eby, Sarah F ^a   Song, Pengfei ^a,b   Chen, Shigao ^b   Chen, Qingshan ^b   Greenleaf, James F ^a,b   An, Kai Nan ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b MAYO GRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Elastic moduli; Materials testing; Passive stiffness; Shear wave elastography; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE QUANTIFICATIONS; GENERALIZED ESTIMATING EQUATIONS; GENERALIZED LINEAR MODEL; PASSIVE STIFFNESS; REGRESSION COEFFICIENT; SHEAR WAVE ELASTOGRAPHY; SKELETAL MUSCLE STIFFNESS; TRANSDUCER ORIENTATIONS;

BIOMECHANICS; ELASTIC MODULI; MATERIALS TESTING; MEDICAL IMAGING; SHEAR WAVES; STIFFNESS; TENSILE STRESS; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

MUSCLE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRACHIALIS MUSCLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; ELASTOGRAPHY; LOAD CARRYING CAPACITY; MATERIALS TESTING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MUSCLE; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCULOSKELETAL STIFFNESS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEAR WAVE ELASTOGRAPHY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TENSILE STRENGTH; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER; VALIDATION PROCESS; YOUNG MODULUS;

ELASTIC MODULI; MATERIALS TESTING; PASSIVE STIFFNESS; SHEAR WAVE ELASTOGRAPHY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; ELASTIC MODULUS; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; FORELIMB; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; SWINE;

EID: 84883794029     PISSN: 00219290     EISSN: 18732380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2013.07.033     Document Type: Article

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