The ultrasonix 500RP: A commercial ultrasound research interface

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 53, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1772-1781

  Wilson, Thaddeus ^a,b   Zagzebski, James ^a,c   Varghese, Tomy ^a,c   Chen, Quan ^a,c   Rao, Min ^c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMERCIAL SCANNERS; ECHO SIGNALS; ULTRASOUND DATA; ULTRASOUND RESEARCH INTERFACE;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SCANNING; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ULTRASONIC DEVICES;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ECHOGRAPHY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INDUSTRY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INSTRUMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INDUSTRY; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOFTWARE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 33845635317     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2006.110     Document Type: Article

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