A New Digital Phased Array System for Dynamic Focusing and Steering with Reduced Sampling Rate

Ultrasonic Imaging

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1990, Pages 1-16

  Song, Tai K ^a   Park, Song B ^a  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

bandwidth sampling; Digital beamforming; dynamic focusing and steering; sampling rate reduction

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN;

HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; SAMPLING STUDIES; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 0025217716     PISSN: 01617346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/016173469001200101     Document Type: Article

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