Elasticity estimates from images of crawling waves generated by miniature surface sources

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 685-694

  Partin, Alexander ^a   Hah, Zaegyoo ^a   Barry, Christopher T ^b   Rubens, Deborah J ^b   Parker, Kevin J ^a  

^a University of Rochester   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Crawling waves; Elasticity imaging; Local shear speed estimation; Shear waves; Sonoelastography

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; BIOMECHANICS; CONFORMAL MAPPING; ELASTICITY; SHEAR WAVES; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

BIOMECHANICAL PROPERTIES; CRAWLING WAVES; ELASTICITY IMAGING; INHOMOGENEOUS PHANTOM; MAPPING ALGORITHMS; SHEAR SPEED; SONOELASTOGRAPHY; ULTRASOUND IMAGING SYSTEMS;

SHEAR FLOW;

ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; BIOMECHANICS; CRAWLING WAVES; ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTICITY; ELASTOGRAPHY; GENERATOR; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; LIVER RESECTION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOTION; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; ULTRASOUND SCANNER; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER; VIBRATION;

CRAWLING WAVES; ELASTICITY IMAGING; LOCAL SHEAR SPEED ESTIMATION; SHEAR WAVES; SONOELASTOGRAPHY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTIC MODULUS; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIVER; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SHEAR STRENGTH; SOUND; STRESS, MECHANICAL; SURFACE PROPERTIES; VISCOSITY;

EID: 84896705896     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: 1879291X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2013.05.019     Document Type: Article

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