Ultrasound Speckle Reduction Using Harmonic Oscillator Models

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 1994, Pages 215-224

  Hokland, Jørn H ^a   Taxt, Torfinn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

harmonic oscillator; Hilbert transform; image restoration; speckle; Ultrasound imaging

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BACKSCATTERING; DEMODULATION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPECKLE; STATISTICS; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC SCATTERING;

GRAY LEVEL; HARMONIC OSCILLATOR; HILBERT TRANSFORM; ULTRASONIC SPECKLE;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 0028392326     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/58.279134     Document Type: Article

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