Blind deconvolution of ultrasound sequences using nonparametric local polynomial estimates of the pulse

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 118-131

  Adam, Dan ^a,b   Michailovich, Oleg ^b  

^a IEEE   (Israel)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Blind deconvolution; Pulse estimation; Ultrasound; Wavelet transform

Indexed keywords

BLIND DECONVOLUTION; ULTRASOUND SEQUENCES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; POLYNOMIAL APPROXIMATION; ULTRASONIC EFFECTS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

TISSUE;

ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PULSE RATE; SIGNAL PROCESSING; ULTRASOUND;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOURIER ANALYSIS; LIVER; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RADIO WAVES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; SWINE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 0036156177     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/10.979351     Document Type: Article

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