Magnitude, origins, and reduction of abdominal ultrasonic clutter

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 50-53

  Lediju, Muyinatu A ^a   Pihl, Michael J ^a   Hsu, Stephen J ^a   Dahl, Jeremy J ^a   Gallippi, Caterina M ^b   Trahey, Gregg E ^a  

^a Duke University   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AXIAL DISPLACEMENTS; BLADDER WALL; FINITE-IMPULSE RESPONSE; HARMONIC IMAGES; IN-VIVO; MOTION FILTERS; MULTIPLE SOURCE; NOISE ARTIFACTS; OFF-AXIS; SOURCE SEPARATION; ULTRASOUND IMAGES;

ACOUSTIC WAVES; FIR FILTERS; IMAGE ACQUISITION; IMPULSE RESPONSE; REVERBERATION; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONICS; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

CLUTTER (INFORMATION THEORY);

EID: 67149146340     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2008.0013     Document Type: Conference Paper

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