A novel interpolation strategy for estimating subsample speckle motion

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1541-1552

  Geiman, Beth J ^a   Bohs, Laurence N ^a   Anderson, Martin E ^a   Breit, Sean M ^a   Trahey, Gregg E ^a  

^a Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEM; MOTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRASOUND; VELOCITY;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 0034045425     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/45/6/310     Document Type: Article

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