Synthetic Aperture Pulse-Echo Imaging with Rectangular Boundary Arrays

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1993, Pages 68-79

  Kozick, Richard J ^a   Kassam, Saleem A ^b  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC IMAGING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MICROWAVES; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

ACTIVE IMAGING; BOUNDARY ARRAYS; MICROWAVE IMAGING; PULSE-ECHO IMAGING; RECTANGULAR BOUNDARY ARRAYS;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 0027259849     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: 19410042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/83.210867     Document Type: Article

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