A versatile and experimentally validated finite element model to assess the accuracy of shear wave elastography in a bounded viscoelastic medium

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 439-450

  Caenen, Annette ^a   Shcherbakova, Darya ^a   Verhegghe, Benedict ^a   Papadacci, Clément ^b   Pernot, Mathieu ^b   Segers, Patrick ^a   Swillens, Abigaïl ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSIONS; MEDICAL IMAGING; RISK ASSESSMENT; SHEAR FLOW; SHEAR WAVES; TISSUE; VISCOELASTICITY;

ACOUSTIC RADIATION FORCE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COMPUTER MODELING; MATERIAL PARAMETER; PROPAGATION CHARACTERISTICS; PROPAGATION SPEED; SHEAR WAVE ELASTOGRAPHY; VISCO-ELASTIC MEDIUMS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

ALGORITHM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEVICES; ELASTOGRAPHY; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; IMAGING PHANTOM; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS; VISCOSITY; YOUNG MODULUS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTIC MODULUS; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; VISCOSITY;

EID: 84924872155     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2014.006682     Document Type: Article

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