Transcranial ultrasound imaging with speed of sound-based phase correction: A numerical study

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 58, Issue 19, 2013, Pages 6663-6681

  Wang, Tianren ^a   Jing, Yun ^a  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAST MARCHING METHODS; LINEAR COEFFICIENTS; PHASE ABERRATIONS; PHASE CORRECTIONS; POTENTIAL PROBLEMS; TRANSCRANIAL ULTRASOUND; TRANSCRANIAL ULTRASOUND IMAGING; ULTRASOUND SCANS;

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; NEUROIMAGING; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONICS; WIRE;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; PROCEDURES; SKULL; SOUND; THEORETICAL MODEL; ARTICLE; METHODOLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; ECHOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SKULL; SOUND; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84884603713     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/58/19/6663     Document Type: Article

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