Transcranial ultrasound focus reconstruction with phase and amplitude correction

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 52, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1518-1522

  White, Jason ^b   Clement, Greg T ^b   Hynynen, Kullervo ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE CORRECTION; LAYERED BONE STRUCTURES; PHASED-ARRAY TRANSDUCERS; TRANSCRANIAL;

ACOUSTIC FIELDS; ACOUSTIC TRANSDUCERS; BONE; BRAIN; DIAGNOSIS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

NONINVASIVE MEDICAL PROCEDURES;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BRAIN; CADAVER; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IN VITRO STUDY; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKULL; ULTRASOUND THERAPY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; BRAIN; CADAVER; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKULL; ULTRASONIC THERAPY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 27644583680     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2005.1516024     Document Type: Article

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