Sound-speed and attenuation imaging of breast tissue using waveform tomography of transmission ultrasound data

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6510, Issue PART 3, 2007, Pages

  Gerhard Pratt, R ^a   Huang, Lianjie ^b   Duric, Neb ^c   Littrup, Peter ^c  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c KARMANOS CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Attenuation; Image processing; Sound speed; Transmission ultrasound; Waveform tomography

Indexed keywords

SOUND-SPEED; TRANSMISSION ULTRASOUND; WAVEFORM TOMOGRAPHY;

DATA REDUCTION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ULTRASONICS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 35148825181     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.708789     Document Type: Conference Paper

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