Imaging Via Inversion of Ellipsoidal Projections of Solutions to the Linear Acoustic Wave Equation

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1989, Pages 89-95

  Martin Arthur, R ^a   Broadstone, Steven R ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES--BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS--FOURIER TRANSFORMS; ULTRASONIC WAVES--SCATTERING;

BORN APPROXIMATION; ELLIPSOIDAL PROJECTIONS INVERSION; GREEN'S FUNCTION; LINEAR ACOUSTIC WAVE EQUATION; ULTRASOUND/TISSUE INTERACTION;

ACOUSTIC IMAGING;

EID: 0024627076     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: 1558254X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.20366     Document Type: Letter

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