The general properties including accuracy and resolution of linear filtering methods for strain estimation

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 55, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 2363-2368

  Lindop, Joel E ^a   Treece, Graham M ^a   Gee, Andrew H ^a   Prager, Richard W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURVE FITTING; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PIECEWISE LINEAR TECHNIQUES; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION;

LINEAR FILTERING; LINEAR FILTERING METHODS; LINEAR FILTERS; LINEAR LEAST SQUARES; PIECE WISES; RESOLVING POWERS; STRAIN ESTIMATIONS;

WAVE FILTERS;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LETTER; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICAL MODEL; YOUNG MODULUS;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTIC MODULUS; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 57049160927     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.943     Document Type: Article

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