Depth-focused interior echo imaging

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1608-1618

  Soumekh, Mehrdad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Echo imaging; Focusing; Phased arrays

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000312149     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/83.799888     Document Type: Article

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