Adaptive imaging and spatial compounding in the presence of aberration

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 52, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1131-1144

  Dahl, Jeremy J ^a   Guenther, Drake A ^a,c   Trahey, Gregg E ^a,b  

^a Duke University   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c University of Virginia   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABERRATOR STRENGTH; CONTRAST-TO-NOISE RATIO (CNR); PHASE ERRORS; SPATIAL FREQUENCY; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; IMAGE QUALITY METRICS; LESION DETECTABILITY; LESION SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIOS; OPERATING CHARACTERISTICS; RESTORATION OF IMAGES; SPATIAL COMPOUNDING;

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ANECHOIC CHAMBERS; CONTRAST MEDIA; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; PHASE COMPOSITION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TISSUE; IMAGE ACQUISITION; RESTORATION;

ABERRATIONS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CYST; ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THYROID GLAND;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; CYSTS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THYROID GLAND; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 24944588103     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2005.1503999     Document Type: Article

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