Clinical Imaging with Transmissive Ultrasonic Computerized Tomography

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn BME-28, Issue 2, 1981, Pages 177-185

  Greenleaf, James F ^a   Bahn, Robert C ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

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

BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FIBROCYSTIC DISEASE OF BREAST; HUMAN; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TOMOGRAPHY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT - WAVE VELOCITY; IMAGE PROCESSING - RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES - ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONIC WAVES - ATTENUATION;

MAMMOGRAPHY; TRANSMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; ULTRASONIC COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 0019394030     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.1981.324789     Document Type: Article

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