Origins of the edge shadowing artefact in medical ultrasound imaging

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1153-1162

  Steel, Robin ^a   Poepping, Tamie L ^b   Thompson, Rosemary S ^a   MacAskill, Charles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

B mode; Cyst; Diffraction; Edge artefact; Reflection; Refractile; Refraction; Shadowing; Sound speed; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

EDGE SHOWING ARTEFACTS; TISSUE-MIMICKING PHANTOMS;

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEDICAL IMAGING; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC SCATTERING; WAVEFRONTS;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CYST; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEM; IN VITRO STUDY; LITERATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND; STAINING; THEORETICAL MODEL; ULTRASOUND;

ARTIFACTS; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; ULTRASONICS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 8844279159     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2004.07.014     Document Type: Article

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