Sensorless freehand 3D ultrasound in real tissue: Speckle decorrelation without fully developed speckle

Medical Image Analysis

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 137-149

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coherent scattering; Freehand 3D ultrasound; Speckle decorrelation

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; HEURISTIC METHODS; SCATTERING; SENSORS; SPECKLE; ULTRASONIC DEVICES;

COHERENT SCATTERING; FREEHAND ULTRASOUND; SPECKLE DECORRELATION;

TISSUE;

ARTICLE; B SCAN; CALIBRATION; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CORRELATION FUNCTION; ECHOGRAPHY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IN VITRO STUDY; INTERFEROMETER; LIGHT SCATTERING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NONHUMAN; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSOR; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ARTIFACTS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 31744451313     PISSN: 13618415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2005.08.001     Document Type: Article

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