Beamforming Scheme for 2D Displacement Estimation in Ultrasound Imaging
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Beamforming Scheme for 2D Displacement Estimation in Ultrasound Imaging
We propose a beamforming scheme for ultrasound imaging leading to the generation of two sets of images, one with oscillations only in the axial direction and one with oscillations only in the lateral direction. Applied to tissue elasticity imaging, this leads to the development of a specific displacement estimation technique that is capable of accurate estimation of two components of the displa...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing
سال: 2005
ISSN: 1687-6180
DOI: 10.1155/asp.2005.1212