Adaptive aberration correction of abdominal images using PARCA

Ultrasonic Imaging

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 169-179

  Krishnan, S ^a   Rigby, K W ^b   O'Donnell, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Abdominal imaging; Aberration correction; PARCA; Phase aberration

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; IMAGE QUALITY;

ABDOMINAL IMAGING; ABERRATION CORRECTION; AMPLITUDE FLUCTUATIONS; COMPENSATION ALGORITHM; IMPROVED CONTRASTS; PARCA; PHASE ABERRATIONS; TISSUE EQUIVALENT PHANTOM;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; NORMAL HUMAN;

EID: 0031453621     PISSN: 01617346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/016173469701900301     Document Type: Article

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