Ultrasound speckle detection using low order moments

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 2092-2095

  Rivaz, Hassan ^a   Boctor, Emad M ^a   Fichtinger, Gabor ^a  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOW-ORDER MOMENTS; OPTIMAL VALUES; QUANTITATIVE ULTRASOUNDS; SPECKLE DETECTION; ULTRASOUND SIGNAL; ULTRASOUND SPECKLE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; SPECKLE; ULTRASONICS;

ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

EID: 78649355535     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2006.501     Document Type: Conference Paper

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