Free of speckle ultrasonic imaging of soft tissue with account of second harmonic signal

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 48, Issue 19, 2003, Pages 3239-3260

  Kharin, Nikolay ^a   Driscoll, Diana ^b   Tobocman, William ^b,c  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCIES; IMAGE QUALITY; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

INVERSE SCATTERING;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOFT TISSUE; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; ESOPHAGUS; FOURIER ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; STOMACH; SWINE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 0141894125     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/48/19/010     Document Type: Article

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