Navigator echo motion artifact suppression in synthetic aperture ultrasound imaging

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 127-131

  Kadah, Yasser M ^a,b,c   El Sharkawy, Abd El Monem ^d   Youssef, Abou Bakr M ^a  

^a CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Biomedical Imaging Technology Center   (United States)

^d Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

Information theoretic image enhancement; Motion artifact; Navigator echo; Synthetic aperture

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COSTS; MEDICAL IMAGING;

ARTIFACT SUPPRESSION; IEEE; NAVIGATOR ECHO; RIGID-BODY MOTION MODEL;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; B SCAN; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MODEL; MOTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOM; ULTRASOUND;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MOVEMENT; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 11244250597     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2004.836501     Document Type: Article

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