Improved in vivo abdominal image quality using real-time estimation and correction of wavefront arrival time errors

Proceedings of the IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn 2, Issue , 2000, Pages 1645-1653

  Rigby, K W ^a   Chalek, C L ^a   Haider, B H ^a   Lewandowski, R S ^a   O'Donnell, M ^a   Smith, L S ^a   Wildes, D G ^a  

^a GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE SENSORS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; MULTIPROCESSING SYSTEMS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; TISSUE; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; WAVEFRONTS;

ABDOMINAL IMAGE QUALITY; ULTRASOUND WAVEFRONTS;

IMAGE QUALITY;

EID: 0034579968     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2000.921639     Document Type: Article

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