An eikonal equation based scheme for refraction artifacts compensation in time-of-flight tomography

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn 4, Issue , 2005, Pages 2034-2037

  Ashfaq, M ^a   Ermert, H ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Eikonal equation; Refraction artefacts; Through transmission

Indexed keywords

DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; TOMOGRAPHY; TUMORS;

BREAST TUMORS; EIKONAL EQUATION; REFRACTION ARTEFACTS; THROUGH TRANSMISSION;

ULTRASONICS;

EID: 33847170554     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2005.1603278     Document Type: Conference Paper

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