High resolution ultrasonic transmission tomography

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5035, Issue , 2003, Pages 33-40

  Marmarelis, Vasilis Z ^a   Kim, Tae Seong ^a   Shehada, Ramez E N ^a  

^a University of Southern California   (United States)

Author keywords

High Resolution; Multi band Multispectral Imaging; Ultrasonic Transmission Tomography

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATTENUATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; MULTISPECTRAL SCANNERS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC TRANSMISSION;

MULTI-BAND ANALYSIS;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 0041856471     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.479887     Document Type: Conference Paper

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