Local Tissue Attenuation Images Based on Pulsed-Echo Ultrasound Scans

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 1989, Pages 211-221

  Walach, Eugene ^a   Shmulewitz, Ascher ^b   Itzchak, Yacov ^b,c   Heyman, Zehava ^b,c  

^a IBM HAIFA RESEARCH LAB   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE PROCESSING; ULTRASONIC WAVES--ATTENUATION;

EXTENDED PRONY METHOD; IN VIVO HUMAN LIVER SCANS; LIVER DISEASE DIAGNOSTICS; LOCAL TISSUE ATTENUATION IMAGES; PULSED-ECHO ULTRASOUND SCANS;

ACOUSTIC IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; HUMAN; IMAGING; LIVER DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METHODOLOGY; THEORETICAL STUDY; ULTRASOUND;

ALGORITHMS; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LIVER; MODELS, STRUCTURAL; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 0024619430     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/10.16468     Document Type: Article

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