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High resolution elastography using two step strain estimation

US7632230B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateMar 20, 2006
Grant dateDec 15, 2009
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Expiry dateAug 15, 2027

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06T2207/30004
  • WIPO fieldMeasurement
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

High-resolution elastography employs a multiple-step process in which successively finer samplings of data and smaller areas of data are evaluated to provide increasingly accurate displacement measurements, wherein each displacement measurement guides the determination of corresponding regions of comparison used in the next displacement evaluation.

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