Superresolution ultrasound imaging using back-projected reconstruction

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 118, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 3953-3960

  Clement, G T ^a   Huttunen, J ^b   Hynynen, K ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

SPATIAL FREQUENCIES; SUPERRESOLUTION ULTRASOUND IMAGING;

ULTRASONICS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; HAIR; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THICKNESS; ULTRASOUND;

ACOUSTICS; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, ACOUSTIC; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 29244469101     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2109167     Document Type: Article

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