Speckle coherence and implications for adaptive imaging

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 101, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1847-1858

  Walker, William F ^a   Trahey, Gregg E ^a  

^a Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; ARTICLE; IMAGING SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRASOUND; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; ULTRASONICS;

EID: 0030899956     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.418235     Document Type: Article

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