Sound-speed image reconstruction in sparse-aperture 3-D ultrasound transmission tomography

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 254-264

  Jiřík, Radovan ^a   Peterlík, Igor ^a   Ruiter, Nicole ^b   Fousek, Jan ^a   Dapp, Robin ^b   Zapf, Michael ^b   Jan, Jiří ^a  

^a BRNO UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3-D IMAGE; 3-D ULTRASOUND; 3D IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ALGEBRAIC RECONSTRUCTION; ATTENUATION COEFFICIENT; BREAST CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CRITICAL POINTS; DATA SETS; EDGE PRESERVING; LOW SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; REFERENCE VALUES; SOUND SPEED; SPARSE-APERTURE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE FOCUSING; SYNTHETIC DATASETS; TRANSMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; ULTRASOUND PARAMETERS; Z-DIRECTIONS;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; SPEED; TISSUE; TOMOGRAPHY; ULTRASONIC TRANSMISSION;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ALGORITHM; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DEVICE FAILURE ANALYSIS; DEVICES; ECHOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; MAMMOGRAPHY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAMMOGRAPHY; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 84857859357     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2012.2185     Document Type: Article

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