Automated three-dimensional US frame positioning computed from elevational speckle decorrelation

Radiology

Volumn 209, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 575-582

  Tuthill, Theresa A ^a   Krücker, Jochen F ^a   Fowlkes, J Brian ^a   Carson, Paul L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast, US; Ultrasound (US), experimental; Ultrasound (US), technology; Ultrasound (US), three dimensional

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; B SCAN; BREAST FIBROADENOMA; CORRELATION FUNCTION; COVARIANCE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HUMAN; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER;

EID: 0031728262     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiology.209.2.9807593     Document Type: Article

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