Ultrasound Compounding With Automatic Attenuation Compensation Using Paired Angle Scans

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 630-642

  Treece, Graham M ^a   Gee, Andrew H ^a   Prager, Richard W ^a  

^a Department of Engineering ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attenuation estimation; Beam steering; Compounding; Ultrasound shadowing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPOUNDING (CHEMICAL); COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ATTENUATION ESTIMATION; BEAM STEERING; ULTRASOUND IMAGES; ULTRASOUND SHADOWING;

TISSUE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; ECHOGRAPHY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ATTENUATION; SIMULATION; TECHNIQUE;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SCATTERING, RADIATION; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 33947507066     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2006.09.012     Document Type: Article

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