Compressive deconvolution in medical ultrasound imaging

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10.1109/TMI.2015.2493241

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Chen, Zhouye and Basarab, Adrian and Kouamé, Denis

Compressive deconvolution in medical ultrasound imaging. (2016) IEEE

Transactions on Medical Imaging, vol. 35 (n° 3). pp. 728-737. ISSN 0278-0062

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