Ultrasound attenuation measurement in the presence of scatterer variation for reduction of shadowing and enhancement

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 52, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 2346-2360

  Treece, G ^a   Prager, R ^a   Gee, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

3 D radio frequency ultrasound acquisition system; Attenuation estimation algorithm; Pulse echo ultrasound display; Scatterer variation; Shadowing reduction; Ultrasound attenuation; Ultrasound enhancement; Ultrasound images

Indexed keywords

SCATTERER VARIATION; SHADOWING REDUCTION; ULTRASOUND ATTENUATION;

ALGORITHMS; DISPLAY DEVICES; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL METHODS; VISUALIZATION;

ULTRASONICS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 32844470955     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2005.1563279     Document Type: Article

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