Pulse-echo imaging using a nondiffracting beam transducer

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 1991, Pages 265-281

  Lu, J Y ^a   Greenleaf, J F ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Bessel beam; Calibration of receiver; Dynamic focusing; Gaussian beam; Nondiffracting beam; Nondiffracting transducer; Pulse echo imaging; Tissue equivalent phantom; Tissue samples; Ultrasonic transducer

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC IMAGING - COMPUTER SIMULATION; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS - TISSUE; IMAGE PROCESSING - IMAGE ANALYSIS; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS - MEDICAL APPLICATIONS;

BESSEL BEAM; GAUSSIAN BEAM; LIVER TISSUE; NONDIFFRACTING BEAM TRANSDUCER; PULSE ECHO IMAGING;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; PHANTOM; TRANSDUCER;

CALIBRATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; LIVER; MODELS, STRUCTURAL; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 0025782653     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0301-5629(91)90048-2     Document Type: Article

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