Ultrasound imaging

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 13, 2006, Pages

  Wells, P N T ^a,b,c  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAM FORMING; ELASTICITY IMAGING; PULSE COMPRESSION; TISSUE HARMONIC IMAGING;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; TISSUE; TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ACOUSTICS; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT; BLOOD FLOWMETRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ELASTICITY; ENGINEERING; IMAGE PROCESSING; PHOTOACOUSTICS; PHYSICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TECHNOLOGY; THERMOACOUSTICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ULTRASOUND; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER;

ANIMALS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 33745498090     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/51/13/R06     Document Type: Review

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