Phase-Error-Free Quadrature Sampling Technique in the Ultrasonic B-Scan Imaging System and Its Application to the Synthetic Focusing System

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 1993, Pages 216-223

  Chang, Seong Ho ^a   Cho, Gyu Hyoung ^b  

^a Song Bai park ^*  (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC WAVEFORMS; FOCUSING; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; SAMPLING;

B-SCAN IMAGING; PHASE ERRORS; QUADRATURE SAMPLING;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 0027593549     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/58.216834     Document Type: Article

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