Parallel processing techniques for the speckle brightness phase aberration correction algorithm

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 431-444

  Freiburger, Paul D ^a   Trahey, Gregg E ^a  

^a SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHASE ABERRATIONS; SPECKLE BRIGHTNESS ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS;

ABERRATIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SPECKLE;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 0031098680     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/58.585128     Document Type: Article

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