Tissue harmonic image analysis based on spatial covariance

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 1648-1656

  Shen, Che Chou ^a   Li, Pai Chi ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LINEAR IMAGING; SPATIAL COVARIANCE; TISSUE HARMONIC IMAGE ANALYSIS; TISSUE HARMONIC IMAGING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; MEDICAL IMAGING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; THEOREM PROVING; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC VELOCITY;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING;

ARTICLE; ECHOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY;

ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 0035498427     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/58.971717     Document Type: Article

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