High-resolution ultrasonic imaging using fast two-dimensional homomorphic filtering

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 53, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1440-1448

  Jiřík, Radovan ^a,b   Taxt, Torfinn ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (Czech Republic)

^b BRNO UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND RADIO FREQUENCY IMAGE DATA; ULTRASOUND SCANNERS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER HARDWARE; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SCANNING; SPECKLE;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 33747437311     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2006.1665101     Document Type: Article

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