Modeling ultrasound imaging as a linear, shift-variant system

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 549-563

  Ng, James ^a,b,c   Prager, Richard ^a,b,d   Kingsbury, Nick ^a,b,c   Treece, Graham ^b,e,f   Gee, Andrew ^b,f  

^a IEEE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c TRINITY COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^d Institute of Electrical Engineers of   (Japan)

^e ROYAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING   (United Kingdom)

^f QUEENS COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIPOLE SCATTERING; RADIO-FREQUENCY (RF) ULTRASOUND SIGNAL; ULTRASOUND SCATTERERS;

ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; FILTRATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; RADIO SYSTEMS; SCATTERING; SPECKLE; ULTRASONICS;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 33645680998     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2006.1610563     Document Type: Article

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