Ultrasonic Nondiffracting Transducer for Medical Imaging

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 1990, Pages 438-447

  Lu, Jian Yu ^a   Greenleaf, James F ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE PROCESSING--MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

BESSEL BEAM; BESSEL SHADED TRANSDUCER; GAUSSIAN BEAMS; GAUSSIAN TRANSDUCER; MEDICAL IMAGING; NONDIFFRACTING TRANSDUCER;

ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 0025483467     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/58.105250     Document Type: Article

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