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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Main Author: Yuan, Lili
Other Authors: Peder C. Pedersen, Advisor
Format: Others
Published: Digital WPI 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