Sound speed estimation using automatic ultrasound image registration

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 51, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1095-1106

  Krücker, Jochen F ^a   Fowlkes, J Brian ^a   Carson, Paul L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DODECAFLUOROPENTANE (DDFP); RAY ACOUSTICS; SPEED ESTIMATION; SPEED OF SOUND (SOS);

BACKSCATTERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DELAY CIRCUITS; IMAGE QUALITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TRANSDUCERS;

ULTRASONICS;

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MOTION; RADIATION SCATTERING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOUND; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MOTION; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOUND; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 4644272661     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2004.1334842     Document Type: Article

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