Diagnostic ultrasound toothiImaging using fractional fourier transform

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 58, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2096-2106

  Harput, Sevan ^a   Evans, Tony ^a   Bubb, Nigel ^a   Freear, Steven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE ERRORS; AVERAGE SPEED; CHIRP SIGNALS; CONTACT IMAGING; DENTAL IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC ULTRASOUND; ENAMEL LAYERS; FRACTIONAL FOURIER TRANSFORMS; HUMAN ENAMEL; HUMAN MOLARS; HUMAN TEETHS; INTERNAL REFLECTIONS; MICROCOMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; RESOLVABLE DISTANCE; TIME AND FREQUENCY DOMAINS; ULTRASOUND MEASUREMENT; VERIFICATION TECHNIQUES; WORKING FREQUENCY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ENAMELS; MATCHED FILTERS; TOMOGRAPHY; TOOTH ENAMEL; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONICS;

FOURIER TRANSFORMS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ECHOGRAPHY; ENAMEL; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MOLAR TOOTH; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TRANSDUCER;

ALGORITHMS; DENTAL ENAMEL; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MOLAR; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; X-RAY MICROTOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 80054061406     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2011.2059     Document Type: Article

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