Improved shear wave motion detection using pulse-inversion harmonic imaging with a phased array transducer

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 2299-2310

  Song, Pengfei ^a   Zhao, Heng ^a   Urban, Matthew W ^a   Manduca, Armando ^a   Pislaru, Sorin V ^b   Kinnick, Randall R ^a   Pislaru, Cristina ^a   Greenleaf, James F ^a   Chen, Shigao ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b Mayo Clinic College of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic radiation force; Diastolic left ventricle stiffness; Harmonic imaging; In vivo human heart; Pulse inversion; Shear wave elastography; Transthoracic scanning

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC RADIATION FORCE; HARMONIC IMAGING; HUMAN HEART; LEFT VENTRICLES; PULSE-INVERSION; SHEAR WAVE ELASTOGRAPHY;

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS; ELASTICITY; EXPERIMENTS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; MEDICAL IMAGING; SPEED REGULATORS; STIFFNESS; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONICS;

SHEAR WAVES;

GELATIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; ECHOGRAPH; ELASTICITY; ELASTOGRAPHY; EX VIVO STUDY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE WALL; HEART MUSCLE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IN VIVO STUDY; MODULATION; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PHANTOM; PULSE INVERSION HARMONIC IMAGING; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; TRANSDUCER; ULTRASOUND SHEAR WAVE ELASTOGRAPHY;

EID: 84890349072     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2013.2280903     Document Type: Article

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