Toward a real-time simulation of ultrasound image sequences based on a 3-D set of moving scatterers

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 56, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2167-2179

  Marion, Adrien ^a   Vray, Didier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3-D DISPLACEMENT; ACOUSTIC MODEL; ANALYTICAL EXPRESSIONS; CONTINUOUS MEDIUM; CONVOLUTION MODEL; DATA SIMULATION; DISPLACEMENT MODEL; FAST SIMULATION; FLOW IMAGING; GRID APPROXIMATIONS; IMAGING PLANE; INTENSITY-BASED; MEDICAL ULTRASOUND; MOTION ESTIMATOR; OVER SAMPLING; PRACTICAL IMPLEMENTATION; REAL TIME SIMULATIONS; REALISTIC DATA; RESEARCH TOOLS; SECOND ORDER STATISTICS; SIMULATION MODEL; SPATIAL SAMPLING; SPECKLE TRACKING; ULTRASONIC DATA; ULTRASOUND DATA; ULTRASOUND IMAGE SEQUENCES; ULTRASOUND IMAGING;

ACOUSTIC WAVES; CONVOLUTION; ERRORS; SCATTERING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIMULATORS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; ULTRASONICS;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); REPRODUCIBILITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THEORETICAL MODEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOVEMENT; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 72749097909     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2009.1299     Document Type: Article

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