Pitch-catch phase aberration correction of multiple isoplanatic patches for 3-D transcranial ultrasound imaging

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 463-480

  Lindsey, Brooks D ^a   Smith, Stephen W ^a  

^a Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COLOR FLOW IMAGING; CROSS CORRELATIONS; LEAST MEAN SQUARE(LMS); OVERDETERMINED SYSTEMS; PHANTOM EXPERIMENT; PHASE ABERRATION CORRECTION; TRANSCRANIAL ULTRASOUND IMAGING;

AUDIO STUDIOS; COLOR; IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; BRAIN CIRCULATION; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; TEMPORAL BONE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRANSDUCER; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; ECHOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; TEMPORAL BONE; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 84874929038     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2013.2590     Document Type: Article

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