Phase-aberration correction with a 3-D ultrasound scanner: Feasibility study

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 53, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1432-1439

  Ivancevich, Nikolas M ^b   Dahl, Jeremv J ^b   Trahey, Gregg E ^a,b   Smith, Stephen W ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHASE-ABERRATION CORRECTION; SPATIAL FREQUENCY CONTENT; SPATIAL SAMPLING FREQUENCY;

ALGORITHMS; CORRELATION METHODS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

ULTRASONICS;

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

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

EID: 33747416749     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2006.1665100     Document Type: Article

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