Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology
Volume 35, Issue 8 , Pages 1325-1343 , August 2009

Reduction of Echo Decorrelation via Complex Principal Component Filtering

  • F. William Mauldin Jr.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to: F. William Mauldin, Jr., Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia, Box 800759, Health System, Charlottesville, VA 22908.
    • ,
  • Francesco Viola

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
    • ,
  • William F. Walker

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
    • Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA

Received 11 July 2008 ,Revised 6 November 2008 ,Accepted 31 January 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2009.01.013

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology
Volume 35, Issue 8 , Pages 1325-1343 , August 2009

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