A super-resolution ultrasound method for brain vascular mapping

Medical Physics

Volumn 40, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  O'Reilly, Meaghan A ^a   Hynynen, Kullervo ^a,b,c  

^a Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

passive beamforming; transcranial ultrasound; ultrasound super resolution

Indexed keywords

BEAMFORMING; BONE; BRAIN MAPPING; DIFFRACTION; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PHANTOMS; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

AMPLITUDE CORRECTION; CONTRAST ULTRASOUND; MICRO COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (MICRO-CT); PASSIVE BEAMFORMING; SUPER RESOLUTION; SUPERIOR RESOLUTION; TRANSCRANIAL ULTRASOUND; TRANSCRANIAL ULTRASOUND IMAGING;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; EX VIVO STUDY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NEUROIMAGING; PHANTOM; SKULL; ULTRASOUND; BRAIN; BRAIN CIRCULATION; CHEMISTRY; ECHOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; TRANSDUCER; VASCULARIZATION;

WATER;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SKULL; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; WATER; X-RAY MICROTOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84889690717     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4823762     Document Type: Article

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