In vivo ultrasound biomicroscopy of skin: Spectral system characteristics and inverse filtering optimization

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 54, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1551-1558

  Vogt, Michael ^a,b   Ermert, Helmut ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; OPTIMIZATION; SKIN; TRANSDUCERS; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

INVERSE FILTERING OPTIMIZATION; PULSE-ECHO MEASUREMENTS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; ULTRASOUND BIOMICROSCOPY (UBM);

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ACOUSTIC MICROSCOPY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MELANOMA; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SKIN TUMOR; TRANSDUCER;

HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MELANOMA; MICROSCOPY, ACOUSTIC; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 34548107544     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2007.425     Document Type: Article

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