Speckle decorrelation due to two-dimensional flow gradients

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 317-327

  Friemel, Barry H ^a   Bohs, Laurence N ^b   Nightingale, Kathryn R ^b   Trahey, Gregg E ^a  

^a SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ULTRASONIC VELOCITY ESTIMATION METHODS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ULTRASONIC SCATTERING;

EID: 0032010782     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/58.660142     Document Type: Article

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