Improvement of wood ultrasonic CT images by using time of flight data normalization

International Review on Computers and Software

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1079-1083

  Fan, Honghui ^a   Zhu, Hongjin ^a   Zhu, Guangping ^a   Liu, Xiaojie ^a  

^a JIANGSU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Maximum likelihood expectation maximization; Normalization; Time of flight; Ultrasonic computed tomography

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE VELOCITY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA INTERPOLATION; DATA NORMALIZATION; HIGH QUALITY; IMAGING PROCESS; MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATIONS; NORMALIZATION; RECONSTRUCTED IMAGE; TIME OF FLIGHT; TIME-OF-FLIGHT DATA; TRANSMISSION PATHS; ULTRASONIC COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; ULTRASONIC CT; ULTRASONIC TIME OF FLIGHTS; VELOCITY CHANGES;

ALGORITHMS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; MAXIMUM PRINCIPLE; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONICS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84860206340     PISSN: 18286003     EISSN: 18286011     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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