Tomographic reconstruction of three-dimensional volumes using the distorted born iterative method

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1643-1653

  Lavarello, Roberto J ^a   Oelze, Michael L ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

Fully 3 D image reconstruction; Inverse scattering; Ultrasonic imaging; Ultrasonic tomography

Indexed keywords

3D RECONSTRUCTION; ARRAY CONFIGURATIONS; DISTORTED BORN ITERATIVE METHODS; FULLY 3-D IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; FUTURE APPLICATIONS; HIGHLY-CORRELATED; IMAGE SLICES; IMAGING PROBLEMS; INVERSE SCATTERING; INVERSE SCATTERING METHODS; NUMBER VALUES; POINT-SPREAD FUNCTION; SCATTERER SIZE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPEED OF SOUNDS; SPHERICAL IMAGING; TARGET SIZE; THREE DIMENSIONS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL VOLUME; TOMOGRAPHIC RECONSTRUCTION; ULTRASONIC TOMOGRAPHY; VERTICAL DIRECTION;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; ITERATIVE METHODS; PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS; REPAIR; SCATTERING; TOMOGRAPHY; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONICS; WAVE EQUATIONS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHOGRAPHY; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRANSDUCER;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 70349847648     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2009.2026274     Document Type: Article

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