Aberration correction by time reversal of moving speckle noise

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 59, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1575-1583

  Osmanski, Bruno Felix ^a   Montaldo, Gabriel ^a   Tanter, Mickael ^a   Fink, Mathias ^a  

^a INSTITUT LANGEVIN   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABERRATION CORRECTION; COHERENT ADDITION; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIA; ISOPLANATIC PATCH; MEDICAL ULTRASOUND IMAGING; MOVING PARTICLES; POINT REFLECTOR; POWER DOPPLER; RED BLOOD CELL; SPECKLE NOISE; TIME REVERSAL; ULTRASOUND IMAGES; VIRTUAL POINTS;

FOCUSING; REFLECTION; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

SPECKLE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; FLOW KINETICS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RHEOLOGY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 84865212732     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2012.2357     Document Type: Article

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