Experimental investigation of computed tomography sound velocity reconstruction using incomplete data

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 51, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1072-1081

  Huang, Sheng Wen ^a,b   Li, Pai Chi ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; REGION OF INTEREST (ROI); SOUND VELOCITY RECONSTRUCTION; ULTRASONIC COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MAMMOGRAPHY; TISSUE; TUMORS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; MAMMOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; MOTION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOUND; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VALIDATION STUDY;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAMMOGRAPHY; MOTION; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOUND; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 4644333525     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2004.1334840     Document Type: Article

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