A method for synthetic aperture compounding

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1743-1746

  Hansen, Jens Munk ^a   Jensen, Jorgen Arendt ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCULAR REGION; COMPOUND IMAGES; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; FRAME RATE; SCAN LINE; SPECKLE STATISTICS; ULTRASOUND SPATIAL COMPOUNDING;

SYNTHETIC APERTURES; ULTRASONICS;

IMAGING SYSTEMS;

EID: 80054074640     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2010.5935588     Document Type: Conference Paper

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