Correlation of ultrasonic scatterer size estimates for the statistical analysis and optimisation of angular compounding

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 116, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 1832-1841

  Gerig, Anthony ^a   Chen, Quan ^a   Zagzebski, James ^a   Varghese, Tomy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; DATA REDUCTION; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; ULTRASONIC SCATTERING;

AUTOCORRECTION FUNCTIONS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

ARTICLE; CONTACT ANGLE; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL; VARIANCE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; SCATTERING, RADIATION; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 4444377866     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1756615     Document Type: Article

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