Three-dimensional spatial compounding of ultrasound scans with weighting by incidence angle

Ultrasonic Imaging

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-19

  Leotta, Daniel F ^a   Martin, Roy W ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b University of Washington   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

3D; Incidence angle; Rotator cuff; Shoulder; Spatial compounding; Surface extraction; Three dimensional

Indexed keywords

SHOULDERS (ROAD); THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

COMPOUNDING TECHNIQUES; INCIDENCE ANGLES; ROTATOR CUFF; SPATIAL COMPOUNDING; SURFACE EXTRACTION; THREE DIMENSIONAL (3D) ULTRASOUND IMAGING; ULTRASOUND BEAMS; ULTRASOUND SCANS;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BONE SCINTISCANNING; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; ROTATOR CUFF; SHOULDER; SWINE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 0034062805     PISSN: 01617346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/016173460002200101     Document Type: Article

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