Ultrasound speckle suppression using heavy-tailed distributions in the dual-tree complex wavelet domain

2007 International Waveform Diversity and Design Conference, WDD

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 65-68

  Forouzanfar, Mohamad ^a   Moghaddam, Hamid Abirshami ^a  

^a K N TOOSI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

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EID: 47749113294     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WDDC.2007.4339381     Document Type: Conference Paper

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