Accelerated focused ultrasound imaging

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 56, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2612-2623

  Madore, Bruno ^a   White, P Jason ^a   Thomenius, Kai ^b   Clement, Gregory T ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; FRAME RATE; IMAGING MODES; IMAGING SPEED; SPATIAL COMPOUNDING; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPEED OF SOUNDS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE IMAGING; TEMPORAL PROCESSING; TRANSMIT BEAMFORMING; ULTRASOUND IMAGING;

BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RESOLUTION; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; ULTRASONICS;

ACOUSTIC WAVES;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 73649105510     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2009.1352     Document Type: Article

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