A digital ultrasonic system for small animal imaging

Ultrasonic Imaging

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 85-99

  Li, Meng Lin ^a   Chen, Yen Fu ^a   Guan, Wei Jung ^a   Li, Pai Chi ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Adaptive weighting; Blood flow estimation; High frequency ultrasound; SAFT; Small animal imaging

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; DOPPLER EFFECT; FOCUSING; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MICROCIRCULATION; SINGLE CRYSTALS; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; TUMORS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ADAPTIVE WEIGHTING; BLOOD FLOW ESTIMATION; HIGH FREQUENCY ULTRASOUNDS; SAFT; SMALL ANIMAL IMAGING;

FREQUENCY ESTIMATION;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; B SCAN; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGING SYSTEM; IN VIVO STUDY; MICROCIRCULATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OVARY CANCER; PHANTOM; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIMULATION; TRANSDUCER; TUMOR; TUMOR GROWTH; ULTRASOUND; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; C57BL MOUSE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISEASE MODEL; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ECHOGRAPHY; EMBRYO; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE STRAIN; SKIN TUMOR; VASCULARIZATION;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EMBRYO; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MICROCIRCULATION; MODELS, ANIMAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SKIN NEOPLASMS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 7944232250     PISSN: 01617346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/016173460402600202     Document Type: Article

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