The ultrasound brain helmet: New transducers and volume registration for in vivo simultaneous multi-transducer 3-D transcranial imaging

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1189-1202

  Lindsey, Brooks D ^a   Light, Edward D ^a   Nicoletto, Heather A ^b   Bennett, Ellen R ^b   Laskowitz, Daniel T ^b   Smith, Stephen W ^a  

^a Duke University   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WINDOWS; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; HEALTH CONCERNS; IN-VIVO; IN-VIVO IMAGES; IN-VIVO IMAGING; MATRIX; MICROBUBBLE CONTRAST AGENTS; MULTILAYER CIRCUITS; NORMALIZED CROSS-CORRELATION; SIMPLE ALGORITHM; SIMULTANEOUS IMAGING; SPARSE ARRAYS; SYSTEM USE; TRANSCRANIAL; TRANSCRANIAL ULTRASOUND; VASCULATURE; VOLUME REGISTRATION;

ACOUSTIC TRANSDUCERS; CABLES; ELECTRIC COILS; PROBES; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONICS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN ARTERY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; INSTRUMENTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MICROBUBBLE; REPRODUCIBILITY; TRANSDUCER; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MICROBUBBLES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 79959545224     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2011.1929     Document Type: Article

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