Spatial compounding in ultrasonic imaging using an articulated scan arm

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 229-238

  Hernandez, Ange ^b   Basset, O ^c   Chirossel, P ^a   Gimenez, G ^c  

^a LOUIS PRADEL HOSPITAL   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Acoustic shadow suppression; Acoustic speckle reduction; Articulated scan arm; B scan echography; Image reconstruction; Registration; Spatial compounding

Indexed keywords

BONE; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LIVING SYSTEMS STUDIES; SCANNING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPECKLE; UROLOGY;

ACOUSTIC SHADOWS; AGAR GEL PHANTOMS; ARTICULATED SCAN ARM; B-SCAN ECHOGRAPHY; SPATIAL COMPOUNDING; ULTRASONIC PROBE;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

AGAR;

ACCURACY; ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; B SCAN; CASE REPORT; GEL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; KIDNEY; LIVER; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPATIAL ORIENTATION;

EID: 0029873224     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0301-5629(95)02038-1     Document Type: Article

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