Motion artifacts of extended high frame rate imaging

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 54, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1303-1315

  Wang, Jing ^b   Lu, Jian Yu ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b Toledo   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRAME RATE IMAGING; HIGH FRAME RATE (HFR) IMAGING; MULTIELEMENT ARRAY TRANSDUCERS; SQUARE-WAVE APERTURE;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFRACTION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; MOTION ESTIMATION; TRANSDUCERS;

IMAGING SYSTEMS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VIDEORECORDING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 34447286726     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2007.391     Document Type: Article

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