Cystic resolution: A performance metric for ultrasound imaging systems

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 782-792

  Ranganathan, Karthik ^a   Walker, William F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL CONVERTERS; APODIZATION; COHERENT IMAGING SYSTEMS; ELECTRONIC NOISE; HANDHELD; MEDICAL ULTRASOUNDS; PERFORMANCE METRIC; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIOS; SIMULATION EXAMPLES; ULTRASOUND IMAGING SYSTEMS; ULTRASOUND SCANNERS;

ACOUSTIC INTENSITY; ACOUSTIC WAVES; ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; SCANNING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; ULTRASONICS;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT; EVALUATION; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 34248592528     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2007.311     Document Type: Article

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