International Journal of Biomedical Imaging
Volume 2006 (2006), Article ID 45957, 15 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/IJBI/2006/45957
Anisotropic Elastography for Local Passive Properties and Active Contractility of Myocardium from Dynamic Heart Imaging Sequence
1Center for X-Ray and Optical Tomography, Department of Radiology, The University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
2Department of Biomedical Engineering, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN 46204, USA
3Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
Received 26 June 2006; Accepted 19 September 2006
Academic Editor: Seung Wook Lee
Copyright © 2006 Yi Liu et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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