Reconstructive Tomography and Applications to Ultrasonics

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 1979, Pages 567-587

  Mueller, Rolf K ^a   Kaveh, Mostafa ^a   Wade, Glen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; ULTRASOUND;

EID: 0018464138     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: 15582256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/PROC.1979.11284     Document Type: Article

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