The impact of aberration on high frame rate cardiac B-mode imaging

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 32-41

  Bjåstad, Tore ^a,b   Aase, Svein A ^a,b   Torp, Hans ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFACTS; BEAMFORMING; CARDIAC B-MODE IMAGING; IN VIVO IMAGING;

CARDIOLOGY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; MEDICAL IMAGING; TISSUE;

ABERRATIONS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VIDEORECORDING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 33846324698     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2007.209     Document Type: Article

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