Harmonic spatial coherence imaging: An ultrasonic imaging method based on backscatter coherence

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 648-659

  Dahl, Jeremy J ^a   Jakovljevic, Marko ^a   Pinton, Gianmarco F ^c   Trahey, Gregg E ^a,b  

^a Duke University   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c INSTITUT JEAN LE ROND D ALEMBERT   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

B-MODE IMAGES; B-MODE IMAGING; CARDIAC TISSUES; CHAMBER MODEL; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; DIAGNOSTIC ULTRASOUND; HARMONIC IMAGING; HUMAN LIVER TISSUES; IMAGING CHARACTERISTICS; IN-VIVO EXPERIMENTS; IN-VIVO IMAGING; NONLINEAR SIMULATIONS; SECOND-HARMONIC; SPATIAL COHERENCE;

BACKSCATTERING; CLUTTER (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXPERIMENTS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

HARMONIC ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; LIVER; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; RADIATION SCATTERING; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIVER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 84860479621     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2012.2243     Document Type: Article

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