A model of distributed phase aberration for deblurring phase estimated from scattering

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 214-228

  Tillett, Jason C ^a   Astheimer, Jeffrey P ^a   Waag, Robert C ^a,b  

^a University of Rochester   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPENSATION OF ABERRATIONS; CORRECTION OF ABERRATIONS; DEBLURRING; FOCAL REGIONS; ISOPLANATIC PATCH; MULTIPLE POINTS; PATH CHARACTERISTIC; PHASE ABERRATIONS; PHASE SCREEN; POINT REFLECTOR; RANDOM MEDIUM; STATISTICAL ESTIMATION; TISSUE MIMICKING PHANTOM; ULTRASOUND IMAGING;

ESTIMATION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; REFLECTION;

ABERRATIONS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHOGRAPHY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 73649118522     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2010.1400     Document Type: Conference Paper

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