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Multi-covariate imaging of sub-resolution targets

Morgan et al., 2019

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7476745127945339640
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Morgan M
Trahey G
Walker W
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IEEE transactions on medical imaging

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Conventional B-mode ultrasound imaging assumes that targets consist of collections of point scatterers. Diffraction, however, presents a fundamental limit on a scanner's ability to resolve individual scatterers in most clinical imaging environments. Well-known optics and …
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