WOLD decomposition of the backscatter echo in ultrasound images of soft tissue organs

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 460-472

  Cohen, Fernand S ^a   Georgiou, Georgia ^b   Halpern, Hau J ^c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b Drexel University   (United States)

^c THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; STATISTICAL METHODS; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC SCATTERING;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATES (MLE); MINIMUM MEAN SQUARE ERROR (MMSE); TISSUE SCATTERERS;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 0031099996     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/58.585131     Document Type: Article

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