Speckle Motion Artifact Under Tissue Rotation

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 1994, Pages 105-122

  Kallel, Faouzi ^a   Bertrand, Michel ^a   Meunier, Jean ^b  

^a ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; ARRAYS; FORECASTING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MODELS; ROTATION; SPECKLE; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

GAUSSIAN BEAMS; MOTION ARTIFACT; PHASE CHARACTERISTICS; POINTSPREAD FUNCTION;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 0028343438     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/58.265828     Document Type: Article

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