Quantitative contrast measurements in B-mode images comparison between experiment and theory

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 1986, Pages 197-208

  Bly, S H P ^a   Lee Chahal, D ^a   Foster, D R ^a   Patterson, M S ^a   Foster, F S ^a   Hunt, J W ^a  

^a PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anechoic lesions; Annular array and cone transducers; Computer simulation; Contrast; Convolution; Cysts; Diagnostic ultrasound; Point spread function; Sidelobes

Indexed keywords

B SCAN; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE; METHODOLOGY; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN;

COMPUTERS; CYSTS; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 0022572449     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0301-5629(86)90310-8     Document Type: Article

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