Ultrafast imaging in biomedical ultrasound

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 102-119

  Tanter, Mickael ^a   Fink, Mathias ^a  

^a PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVE TRANSMISSION;

BIOMEDICAL ULTRASOUND; CLINICAL APPLICATION; FUTURE APPLICATIONS; GRAPHICAL PROCESSING UNITS; LARGE FIELD OF VIEWS; PLANE-WAVE TRANSMISSION; TECHNOLOGICAL BREAKTHROUGHS; THERAPEUTIC MONITORING;

ULTRASONICS;

ALGORITHM; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 85047689253     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2014.2882     Document Type: Article

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