The stripe artifact in transcranial ultrasound imaging

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1779-1786

  Vignon, Francois ^a   Shi, William T ^a   Yin, Xiangtao ^a   Hoelscher, Thilo ^b   Powers, Jeffry E ^c  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Artifact; Mode conversion; Stripe artifact; Transcranial; Ultrasound imaging

Indexed keywords

ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONIC TRANSMISSION; WAVE TRANSMISSION; WAVEFRONTS;

ARTIFACT; MODE CONVERSIONS; STRIPE ARTIFACT; TRANSCRANIAL; ULTRASOUND IMAGING;

BONE;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SKULL; TEMPORAL BONE;

ARTIFACTS; HUMANS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SKULL; TEMPORAL BONE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 78649585152     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/jum.2010.29.12.1779     Document Type: Article

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