Computed Tomography Sound Velocity Reconstruction Using Incomplete Data

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 329-342

  Huang, Sheng Wen ^a   Li, Pai Chi ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; ALGORITHMS; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL IMAGING; ONCOLOGY; TUMORS; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; X RAYS;

LIMITED ANGLE TRANSMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SOUND VELOCITY RECONSTRUCTION; X-RAY MAMMOGRAPHY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOMAMMOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSDUCER;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, MAMMARY;

EID: 2342530481     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2004.1295413     Document Type: Article

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