Generalized poisson 3-D scatterer distributions

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 410-414

  Laporte, Catherine ^a   Clark, James J ^a   Arbel, Tal ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURVE FITTING; POISSON EQUATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

DISTRIBUTION MODELS; GENERALIZED POISSON PROCESS; HILBERT CURVES; MULTIPLE DIMENSIONS; SECOND-ORDER STATISTICS; SPATIAL DENSITIES; SYNTHETIC IMAGERIES;

POISSON DISTRIBUTION;

ALGORITHM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHOGRAPHY; LETTER; POISSON DISTRIBUTION;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 62349104062     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2009.1052     Document Type: Article

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