Continuous delay estimation with polynomial splines

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 53, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 2026-2035

  Pinton, Gianmarco F ^b   Trahey, Gregg E ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DELAY ESTIMATION; ELASTOGRAPHIC IMAGES; PHASE ABERRATION CORRECTIONS; POLYNOMIAL SPLINES;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POLYNOMIAL APPROXIMATION; SPLINES; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

MEDICAL PROBLEMS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 33846185443     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2006.143     Document Type: Article

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