Speckle classification for sensorless freehand 3-D ultrasound

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 31, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1499-1508

  Hassenpflug, Peter ^a   Prager, Richard W ^a   Treece, Graham M ^a   Gee, Andrew H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Freehand three dimensional ultrasound; Speckle decorrelation; Speckle detection

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; SENSORS; TISSUE; VOLUME MEASUREMENT;

FREEHAND THREE-DIMENSIONAL ULTRASOUND; SPECKLE DECORRELATION; SPECKLE DETECTION;

ULTRASONICS;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ECHOGRAPHY; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TECHNOLOGY; TISSUE; ULTRASOUND;

HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 27744579673     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2005.07.007     Document Type: Article

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