Ultrasound Transducers for Pulse-Echo Medical Imaging

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn BME-30, Issue 8, 1983, Pages 453-481

  Hunt, John W ^a   Arditi, Marcel ^a   Foster, F Stuart ^a  

^a PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING - IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; IMAGING SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PIEZOELECTRICITY; REVIEW; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MATHEMATICS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONICS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 0020972538     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.1983.325150     Document Type: Article

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