Feasibility Investigation of Real-time Quantitative Quasi-static Ultrasound Elastography
The individual soft tissues in the human body, such as liver, prostate, thyroid and breast, can each be characterized by a set of mechanical properties. Among these properties, the stiffness, or Young’s modulus, is of particular interest, as disease processes or abnormal growths introduce changes...
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2017
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Online Access: | https://digitalcommons.wpi.edu/etd-dissertations/175 https://digitalcommons.wpi.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1174&context=etd-dissertations |