Vibro-acoustography and multifrequency image compounding

Ultrasonics

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 689-696

  Urban, Matthew W ^a   Alizad, Azra ^a   Fatemi, Mostafa ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Frequency compounding; Radiation force; Reverberation; Ultrasound; Vibro acoustography

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC FREQUENCY; ACOUSTIC PATH; ACOUSTIC RESPONSE; BREAST PHANTOM; FINITE LENGTH; FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; FREQUENCY COMPOUNDING; HARMONIC RADIATION; IMAGE DATA; IMAGE INTENSITIES; IMAGING MODALITY; INCOHERENT PROCESS; LOW-FREQUENCY SOUNDS; MULTI FREQUENCY; MULTIFREQUENCY DATA; MULTIPLE FREQUENCY; MULTIPLE IMAGE; OBJECT BOUNDARIES; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; RADIATION FORCES; REDUCTION METHOD; SOFT TISSUE; ULTRASOUND; ULTRASOUND ENERGY; ULTRASOUND FREQUENCY; VIBROACOUSTOGRAPHY;

ACOUSTIC EMISSIONS; BANDPASS FILTERS; HYDROPHONES; IMAGE QUALITY; REVERBERATION; TISSUE; ULTRASONICS;

EMBEDDED SYSTEMS;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; ECHOGRAPHY; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; VIBRATION;

ACOUSTICS; ARTIFACTS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; VIBRATION;

EID: 79955749481     PISSN: 0041624X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultras.2011.02.001     Document Type: Article

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