Statistical analysis of decorrelation-based transducer tracking for three-dimensional ultrasound

Medical Physics

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1580-1591

  Smith, Wendy ^a   Fenster, Aaron ^b,c  

^a LONDON REGIONAL CANCER PROGRAM   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c ROBARTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ACQUISITION; LUMINANCE; SPECKLE; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

DECORRELATION METHODS; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; INTENSITY IMAGES; NORMALIZATION FACTORS; PLANE SEPARATION; SPECKLE DECORRELATION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL ULTRASOUND; TRANSDUCER TRACKING;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CORRELATION FUNCTION; COVARIANCE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TECHNIQUE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER;

EID: 0038372108     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1577231     Document Type: Article

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