Multi-band tissue differentiation in ultrasonic transmission tomography

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5035, Issue , 2003, Pages 41-48

  Kim, Tae Seong ^a   Do, Syn Ho ^a   Marmarelis, Vasilis Z ^a  

^a University of Southern California   (United States)

Author keywords

Multi band Multispectral Imaging; Spectral Target Detection; Spectral Unmixing; Tissue Differentiation; Ultrasonic Transmission Tomography

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATTENUATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; MULTISPECTRAL SCANNERS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC TRANSMISSION;

MULTI-BAND ANALYSIS;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 0041357094     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.479888     Document Type: Conference Paper

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