Spatial compounding of 3-D ultrasound images

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 1230, Issue , 1997, Pages 519-524

  Rohling, Robert ^a   Gee, Andrew ^a   Berman, Laurence ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

3-D ULTRASOUND; B-SCANS; IN-VITRO; RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; REGISTRATION ERROR; REGISTRATION TECHNIQUES; SPATIAL COMPOUNDING;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 21744452697     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-63046-5_53     Document Type: Conference Paper

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