Post-beamforming second-order volterra filter for pulse-echo ultrasonic imaging

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 987-1001

  Phukpattaranont, Pornchai ^a,b   Ebbini, Emad S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b IEEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; SCATTERING; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION;

PULSE ECHO ULTRASONIC IMAGING; QUADRATIC IMAGE; SECOND ORDER VOLTERRA FILTER; ULTRASOUND CONTRAST AGENTS;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, PULSED; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 0141992470     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2003.1226543     Document Type: Article

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