A Fundamental Limit on Delay Estimation Using Partially Correlated Speckle Signals

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 1995, Pages 301-308

  Walker, William F ^a   Trahey, Gregg E ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BLOOD VESSELS; CORRELATION THEORY; ERROR ANALYSIS; ERROR CORRECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPECKLE; ULTRASONIC VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

DELAY ESTIMATION; JITTER ERRORS; PARTIALLY CORRELATED SPECKLE SIGNALS; SIGNAL DECORRELATION;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 0029272023     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/58.365243     Document Type: Article

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