Two-dimensional phase unwrapping using a block least-squares method

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 375-386

  Strand, Jarle ^b   Taxt, Torfinn ^a,b   Jain, Anil K ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c Michigan State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Interferometric images; Magnetic resonance images; Phase unwrapping

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; INTERFEROMETRY; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

GHIGLIA-ROMERO METHOD; MARROQUIN-RIVERA METHOD; PHASE UNWRAPPING;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 0033097751     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/83.748892     Document Type: Article

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