Fast shear compounding using directional filtering and two-dimensional shear wave speed calculation

IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, IUS

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1264-1267

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

^a MAYO GRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

2D shear wave speed calculation; Acoustic radiation force; Comb push; Directional filter; Shear compounding; Shear elasticity maps

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894323768     PISSN: 19485719     EISSN: 19485727     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2013.0323     Document Type: Conference Paper

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