Spatial coherence analysis applied to aberration correction using a two-dimensional array system

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 112, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 2558-2566

  Lacefield, James C ^a,c   Waag, Robert C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b University of Rochester   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; CORRELATION METHODS; DATA REDUCTION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; ULTRASONIC MEASUREMENT; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

SYNTHETIC DATA;

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE;

ACOUSTICS;

ACOUSTICS; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SOUND TRANSMISSION; SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATION ANALYSIS; TIME; TISSUE; ULTRASOUND; ARTIFACT; ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; RADIATION SCATTERING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS;

ARTIFACTS; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 0036984497     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1511756     Document Type: Article

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