Sar despeckling filters in ultrasound imaging

Latin American Applied Research

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 49-53

  Jin, Jing Yi ^a   Silva, Glauber T ^b   Frery, Alejandro C ^c  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF ALAGOAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Image processing; Speckle; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; DATA REDUCTION; IMAGE PROCESSING; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SCANNING; SPECKLE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPECKLE NOISE;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 1942540730     PISSN: 03270793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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