Sinogram enhancement for high-resolution ultrasonic transmission tomography using nonlinear anisotropic coherence diffusion

Proceedings of the IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages 1816-1819

  Kim, Tae Seong ^a,b   Huang, Changzheng ^b   Jeong, Jeong Won ^b   Shin, Dae C ^b   Singh, Manbir ^a   Marmarelis, Vasilis Z ^a,b  

^a University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAM HARDENING; SINOGRAMS; ULTRASONIC SYSTEMS;

ACOUSTIC TRANSDUCERS; ANISOTROPY; APPROXIMATION THEORY; DIFFRACTION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TOMOGRAPHY;

ULTRASONIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 4143097302     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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