Maximum likelihood estimation of shear wave speed in transient elastography

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1338-1349

  Audiere, Stephane ^a   Angelini, Elsa D ^b,c   Sandrin, Laurent ^a   Charbit, Maurice ^b  

^a Echosens   (France)

^b INSTITUT MINES TELECOM   (France)

^c Department of Biomedical Engineering Heffner Biomedical Imaging Laboratory Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Elasticity; Green's function; Likelihood function; Liver; Shear wave; Transient elastography; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ELASTICITY; GREEN'S FUNCTION; LIVER; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONICS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

CLINICAL PRACTICES; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATE; MECHANICAL CONSTRAINTS; PARAMETRIC MODELING; RADIO FREQUENCIES; THEORETICAL VALUES; TRANSIENT ELASTOGRAPHY;

SHEAR WAVES;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPRESSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFRACTION; ELASTIC TISSUE; ELASTOGRAPH; ELASTOGRAPHY; GEOMETRY; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; RIGIDITY; SHEAR WAVE SPEED; SIMULATION; STRESS; SURFACE PROPERTY; TRANSIENT ELASTOGRAPHY; ULTRASOUND; VELOCITY; YOUNG MODULUS; ALGORITHM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEVICES; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; PROCEDURES; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING;

EID: 84901944291     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: 1558254X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2014.2311374     Document Type: Article

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