Spatial coherence of the nonlinearly generated second harmonic portion of backscatter for a clinical imaging system

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1010-1022

  Fedewa, Russell J ^a   Wallace, Kirk D ^a   Holland, Mark R ^a   Jago, James R ^b   Ng, Gary C ^b   Rielly, Matthew R ^b   Robinson, Brent S ^b   Miller, James G ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; NONLINEAR FILTERING; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

CLINICAL IMAGING SYSTEMS; NONLINEAR GENERATED SECOND HARMONIC; VAN CITTERT-ZERNIKE THEOREM;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; ECHOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT; EVALUATION; FOURIER ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION SCATTERING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS; VALIDATION STUDY;

CONNECTIVE TISSUE; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FOURIER ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 0141992471     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2003.1226545     Document Type: Article

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