Shear modulus estimation using parallelized partial volumetric reconstruction

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1404-1416

  Doyley, Marvin M ^a,b,c   Van Houten, Elijah E ^d   Weaver, John B ^a,b   Poplack, Steven ^a,b   Duncan, Laura ^b   Kennedy, Francis ^b   Paulsen, Keith D ^b,c  

^a DARTMOUTH HITCHCOCK MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

^c NORRIS COTTON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Breast cancer detection; Elasticity imaging; Elastography; Inverse elasticity problem; Magnetic resonance imaging; Parallel computing; Shear modulus estimation

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER DETECTION; INVERSE ELASTICITY PROBLEMS; SHEAR MODULUS ESTIMATION;

AMPLIFICATION; DATA REDUCTION; ELASTIC MODULI; ELASTICITY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ELASTICITY; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHEAR STRENGTH; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VALIDATION STUDY;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMPUTING METHODOLOGIES; ELASTICITY; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHEAR STRENGTH;

EID: 9244262977     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2004.834624     Document Type: Article

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