Large-domain, low-contrast acoustic inverse scattering for ultrasound breast imaging

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 57, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 2712-2722

  Haynes, Mark ^a   Moghaddam, Mahta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic inverse scattering; Born iterations; breast imaging; covariance based cost function; Neumann series

Indexed keywords

BORN ITERATIONS; BREAST IMAGING; COVARIANCE-BASED COST FUNCTION; INVERSE-SCATTERING; NEUMANN SERIES;

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST FUNCTIONS; COSTS; ULTRASONICS;

ACOUSTIC WAVE SCATTERING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CONTRAST; ECHOMAMMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; WAVEFORM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, MAMMARY;

EID: 77958141300     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2010.2059023     Document Type: Article

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