Medical imaging by ultrasound-computertomography

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4687, Issue , 2002, Pages 110-119

  Stotzka, Rainer ^a   Würfel, Jan ^a   Müller, Tim O ^a   Gemmeke, H ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

3D; Breast imaging; Circular array; Computed tomography; Diffraction; Transducer array; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; SCANNING; TUMORS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

ULTRASOUND COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY (USCT);

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 0036030857     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.462144     Document Type: Conference Paper

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