Estimation of local attenuation and its application to rationalized gain control

2007 1st International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering, ICBBE

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1249-1252

  Li, Xiaoying ^a   Liu, Dong C ^a  

^a SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Attenuation; Data fitting; Nonlinear least square; Time gain control; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; GAIN CONTROL; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; TISSUE;

ATTENUATION; DATA FITTING; FREQUENCY SHIFT; NONLINEAR LEAST SQUARE; TIME GAIN CONTROL;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 35348884221     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICBBE.2007.322     Document Type: Conference Paper

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