Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology
Volume 33, Issue 1 , Pages 48-56 , January 2007

Improvement of elastographic displacement estimation using a two-step cross-correlation method

  • Hao Chen

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medical Physics, The University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Madison, WI, USA
    • Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA
    • ,
  • Hairong Shi

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medical Physics, The University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Madison, WI, USA
    • ,
  • Tomy Varghese

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medical Physics, The University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Madison, WI, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to: Tomy Varghese, Department of Medical Physics, The University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA.

Received 28 November 2005 ,Revised 21 June 2006 ,Accepted 13 July 2006.

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doi: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2006.07.022

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology
Volume 33, Issue 1 , Pages 48-56 , January 2007

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