Nonparametric Estimation of Ultrasound Pulses

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 1994, Pages 929-936

  Jensen, Jørgen Arendt ^a   Leeman, Sidney ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b Dulwich Community Hospital   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ESTIMATION; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; ULTRASONIC EFFECTS;

DECONVOLUTION ALGORITHMS; HOMOMORPHIC SIGNAL FILTERING; NONPARAMETRIC PULSE ESTIMATION; PULSE ESTIMATION ALGORITHMS; ULTRASONIC PULSE ECHO MONITORING;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ECHOGRAPHY; FILTERING OPERATION; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PULSE WAVE; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TECHNIQUE; ULTRASOUND; VARIANCE; WAVEFORM;

EID: 0028519038     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/10.324524     Document Type: Article

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