Blurred ultrasonic images as ISI-affected signals: Joint tissue response estimation and channel tracking in the proposed paradigm

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1270-1273

  De Marchi, L ^a   Palladini, A ^a   Testoni, N ^a   Speciale, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC IMAGING; CHANNEL ESTIMATION; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; CODES (SYMBOLS); DIGITAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; ESTIMATION; HEALTH; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; INTERSYMBOL INTERFERENCE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; TELECOMMUNICATION; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONIC TESTING; VITERBI ALGORITHM;

BIOMEDICAL ULTRASOUND; CHANNEL TRACKING; DIAGNOSTIC CAPABILITIES; DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS; DISCRETE VALUES; EQUALIZATION TECHNIQUES; INHOMOGENEITIES; LEAST-MEAN-SQUARE; LMS ADAPTATION; POINT-SPREAD FUNCTION; REAL-TIME UPDATING; REDUCED-COMPLEXITY; RF SIGNALS; SPATIAL ANALYSES; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; TISSUE ATTENUATION; TISSUE RESPONSES; US IMAGING; VITERBI;

ULTRASONICS;

EID: 48149100732     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2007.319     Document Type: Conference Paper

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