Ultrasound imaging using variations of the iterative Born technique

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 574-583

  Liu, Lujiang ^a   Zhang, Xiaodong ^a   Broschat, Shira L ^a  

^a Washington State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INVERSE PROBLEMS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PHASE SHIFT KEYING; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC SCATTERING;

COARSE RESOLUTION INITIAL VALUE METHOD; QUADRI PHASE SOURCE METHOD;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 0032663949     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/58.764844     Document Type: Article

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