Modeling and correction of incoherent wavefront distortion

International Journal of Imaging Systems and Technology

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 322-335

  Zhu, Qing ^a   Steinberg, Bernard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Inverse filtering; Ultrasound; Wavefront compensation; Wavefront model

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; COHERENT LIGHT; IMAGE COMPRESSION; IMAGE QUALITY; LIGHT INTERFERENCE; LIGHT SCATTERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS; WAVEFRONTS;

IMAGE CONTRAST; INVERSE FILTERING; MATCHED FILTERING ALGORITHMS; WAVEFRONT COMPENSATION; WAVEFRONT DISTORTION;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 0030672565     PISSN: 08999457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-1098(1997)8:3<322::AID-IMA10>3.0.CO;2-0     Document Type: Article

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