Evaluation of the influence of large temperature variations on the grey level content of B-mode images

Physics Procedia

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 415-419

  Alvarenga, André V ^a   Teixeira, César A ^b   Ruano, Maria Graça ^b   Pereira, Wagner C A ^c  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE METROLOGIA   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALGARVE   (Portugal)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Grey level content; Image processing techniques; Non invasive temperature estimation; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ENTROPY; TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; ULTRASONICS;

CRITICAL VALUE; GREY LEVELS; HEATING PERIOD; HUMAN BODY TEMPERATURE; IMAGE PROCESSING TECHNIQUE; LARGE TEMPERATURE VARIATIONS; STATE-OF-THE-ART METHODS; TEMPERATURE ESTIMATION;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 77951543296     PISSN: 18753884     EISSN: 18753892     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.phpro.2010.01.054     Document Type: Conference Paper

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