A theoretical framework to three-dimensional ultrasound reconstruction from irregularly sampled data

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 255-269

  San José Estépar, Raúl ^a   Martín Fernández, Marcos ^a   Caballero Martínez, P Pablo ^a   Alberola López, Carlos ^a   Ruiz Alzola, Juan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

3 D ultrasound imaging; Adaptive Gaussian interpolation; Irregularly sampled ultrasound data; PCA; Reconstruction grid extraction

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; INTERPOLATION; STATISTICAL METHODS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

ULTRASOUND RECONSTRUCTION;

ULTRASONICS;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL STUDY; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 0347926378     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-5629(02)00762-7     Document Type: Article

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