Identifying the signal of interest for partially overlapping ultrasonic echoes

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 54, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1470-1474

  Cepel, Raina ^a   Neal, Steven P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE VARIATIONS; ECHO SOURCES; ULTRASONIC ECHOES;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; ULTRASONIC EFFECTS;

SIGNAL ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHM; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; LETTER; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 34547404611     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2007.408     Document Type: Article

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