Beam Steering with Linear Arrays

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn BME-30, Issue 8, 1983, Pages 438-452

  Von Ramm, Olaf T ^a   Smith, Stephen W ^b,c  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAM PROFILE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; REAL TIME ECHOGRAPHY; REVIEW;

HEART DISEASES; HUMAN; MATHEMATICS; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; ULTRASONICS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

ULTRASONICS - IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 0020972539     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.1983.325149     Document Type: Article

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