Beam steering approach for speckle characterization and out-of-plane motion estimation in real tissue

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 781-784

  Rivaz, Hassan ^a   Zellars, Richard ^b   Hager, Gregory ^a   Fichtinger, Gabor ^d   Boctor, Emad ^c  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; CORRELATION METHODS; ERROR DETECTION; ESTIMATION; EXPERIMENTS; LIVER; SPECKLE; STEERING; THREE DIMENSIONAL; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONICS;

3-D ULTRASOUND; BEAM STEERING; CORRELATION CALCULATION; EX-VIVO; FREEHAND 3-D ULTRASOUND SYSTEMS; OUT-OF-PLANE MOTION; SENSOR-LESS; SPECKLE DETECTION;

MOTION ESTIMATION;

EID: 46349104023     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2007.200     Document Type: Conference Paper

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