Performance evaluation of combined spatial compounding/adaptive imaging: Simulation, phantom and clinical trials

Proceedings of the IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages 1532-1536

  Dahl, Jeremy J ^a   Guenther, Drake ^a   Trahey, Gregg E ^a  

^a Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE IMAGING; CLINICAL TRIALS; CONTRAST-TO-NOISE RATIO (CNR); PHASE ERRORS;

ABERRATIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTRAST MEDIA; ERROR ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; MEDICAL IMAGING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPECKLE; TRANSDUCERS; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 4143154298     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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