Adaptive spatial compounding for improving ultrasound images of the epidural space

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6513, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Tran, Denis ^a   Kamani, Allaudin ^a   Lessoway, Vickie ^b   Rohling, Robert N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b CHILDREN S AND WOMEN S HEALTH CENTRE OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Contrast; Image processing; Image quality display; Registration; Spatial compounding

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ANESTHESIOLOGY; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; EDGE DETECTION; LAPLACE EQUATION; PIXELS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

ANATOMICAL FEATURES; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; NEEDLE TRAJECTORY APPROPRIATELY; SPATIAL COMPOUNDING;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 35148818003     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.704225     Document Type: Conference Paper

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