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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Jul 21.
Published in final edited form as: Phys Med Biol. 2007 Apr 10;52(9):2425–2443. doi: 10.1088/0031-9155/52/9/007

Figure 1.

Figure 1

A technique for imaging viscoelastic properties of a gelatin phantom is illustrated. The object (top-left) is compressed from above and held while the ultrasound system records a series of RF echo frames from which a sequence of strain images (top-centre) is computed. Pixels from the strain-image sequence (bottom-left) are fitted to viscoelastic models to compute retardation-time (T) images (top-right) that correspond to retardance spectral distribution L(τ) peaks (bottom-right).