An eigenfunction method for reconstruction of large-scale and high-contrast objects

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 54, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1316-1322

  Waag, Robert C ^a,b   Lin, Feng ^a,b,c   Varslot, Trond K ^a,d,e   Astheimer, Jeffrey P ^b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^c GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^d NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^e RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH CONTRAST OBJECTS; MULTIPLE FREQUENCY INVERSE SCATTERING METHOD; SCATTERING OBJECTS; SCATTERING OPERATORS;

ACOUSTIC FIELDS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SCATTERING;

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 34547457977     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2007.392     Document Type: Article

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