Performance evaluation of ultrasonic nakagami image in tissue characterization

Ultrasonic Imaging

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 78-94

  Tsui, Po Hsiang ^a   Yeh, Chih Kuang ^b   Chang, Chien Cheng ^a,c   Chen, Wen Shiang ^d  

^a RESEARCH CENTER FOR APPLIED SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Nakagami distribution; Parametric image; Ultrasonic backscattering

Indexed keywords

IMAGE SEGMENTATION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; SCANNING; TISSUE; TISSUE ENGINEERING; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; NAKAGAMI DISTRIBUTION; PARAMETRIC IMAGE; SCATTERER CONCENTRATIONS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; TISSUE MIMICKING PHANTOM; ULTRASONIC BACKSCATTERING; ULTRASONIC PARAMETRIC IMAGING;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ARTICLE; B SCAN; ECHOGRAPHY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; NAKAGAMI STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION SCATTERING; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; TISSUE CHARACTERIZATION;

EID: 52749083279     PISSN: 01617346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/016173460803000202     Document Type: Article

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