Wavefront Amplitude Distortion and Image Sidelobe Levels: Part I—Theory and Computer Simulations

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 1993, Pages 747-753

  Zhu, Qing ^a   Steinberg, Bernard D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS;

AMPLITUDE DISTORTION; AVERAGE SIDELOBE FLOOR;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 0027703128     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/58.248219     Document Type: Article

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