Reconstruction of Ultrasound Propagation Speed Distributions in Soft Tissue: Time-of-Flight Tomography

IEEE Transactions on Sonics and Ultrasonics

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 1977, Pages 229-234

  Glover, Gary H ^a   Sharp, J C ^b,c  

^a GE MEDICAL SYSTEMS   (United States)

^b GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^c ROCHE BIOSCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ULTRASONIC WAVES - VELOCITY;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 0017518147     PISSN: 00189537     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/T-SU.1977.30936     Document Type: Article

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