The combined effect of signal decorrelation and random noise on the variance of time delay estimation

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 220-225

  Cespedes I ^a   Ophir, J ^a   Alam, S Kaisar ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CORRELATION THEORY; ESTIMATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; MEDICAL IMAGING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPECKLE; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONIC WAVES;

CRAMER-RAO LOWER BOUND; RANDOM NOISE; SIGNAL DECORRELATION; SPECKLE DECORRELATION; TIME DELAY ESTIMATION;

ULTRASONICS;

EID: 0030785945     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/58.585223     Document Type: Article

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