The effects of digitization on the elastographic signal-to-noise ratio

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 28, Issue 11-12, 2002, Pages 1521-1534

  Srinivasan, S ^a,b   Kallel, F ^a,b   Ophir, Jonathan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Correlation coefficient; Digitization; Elastography; Quantization; Sampling; SNR; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION; TISSUE; ULTRASONICS;

ULTRASOUND SIGNALS;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIGITAL FILTERING; ELASTOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLING; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THEORETICAL MODEL; YOUNG MODULUS;

ELASTICITY; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; STRESS, MECHANICAL; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 0036865949     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-5629(02)00652-X     Document Type: Article

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