Restoration of Medical Ultrasound Images Using Two-Dimensional Homomorphic Deconvolution

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 1995, Pages 543-554

  Taxt, Torfinn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MEDICAL IMAGING; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; TISSUE;

POINT SPREAD FUNCTION; TISSUE MIMICKING PHANTOM; TWO DIMENSIONAL HOMOMORPHIC DECONVOLUTION;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 0029342761     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/58.393097     Document Type: Article

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