Correlation of RF signals during angular compounding

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 961-970

  Chen, Quan ^a,c   Gerig, Anthony L ^a,d   Techavipoo, Udomchai ^a,b,e   Zagzebski, James A ^a   Varghese, Tomy ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^c TOMOTHERAPY INC   (United States)

^d PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGLE MEASUREMENT; CORRELATION METHODS; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; FREQUENCIES; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ANGULAR COMPOUNDING; DECORRELATION RATES; RF SIGNALS; SPATIAL-SENSITIVITY-FUNCTION (SSF);

RADIO SYSTEMS;

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RADIO WAVES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 23244455612     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/tuffc.2005.1504018     Document Type: Article

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