High-Speed Ultrasound Volumetric Imaging System—Part I: Transducer Design and Beam Steering

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 1991, Pages 100-108

  Smith, Stephen W ^a   Pavy, Henry G ^b   von Ramm, Olaf T ^b  

^a CENTER FOR DEVICES AND RADIOLOGICAL HEALTH   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS - FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; SIGNAL INTERFERENCE - CROSSTALK; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

2-D ARRAY ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCER; 2-D BEAM STEERING; ULTRASOUND VOLUMETRIC IMAGING;

ACOUSTIC IMAGING;

EID: 0026128882     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/58.68466     Document Type: Article

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