A Piecewise Spatial Invariant Model of Ultrasonic Image Formation

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 1988, Pages 457-463

  Iracà, Domenico ^a   Landini, Luigi ^a   Verrazzani, Lucio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGING TECHNIQUES -- MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

PIECEWISE INVARIANT MODEL; POINT-SPREAD FUNCTION; ULTRASONIC IMAGE FORMATION;

ACOUSTIC IMAGING;

EID: 0024037607     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/58.4182     Document Type: Article

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