Vessel wall detection and blood noise reduction in intravascular ultrasound imaging

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 359-369

  Gronningsaeter, Aage ^a   Angelsen, Bjørn A J ^a   Heimdal, Andreas ^a   Torp, Hans G ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ALGORITHMS; BLOOD; BLOOD VESSELS; CALCULATIONS; CORRELATION METHODS; ELECTRIC FILTERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEDICAL IMAGING; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL THEORY; ULTRASONIC SCATTERING;

BLOOD NOISE FILTER; BLOOD NOISE REDUCTION; CROSS CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND IMAGING; SPATIAL AVERAGING; SPECKLE TRACKING ALGORITHMS; VESSEL WALL DETECTION;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 0030150180     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/58.489392     Document Type: Article

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