VLSI Circuits for Adaptive Digital Beamforming in Ultrasound Imaging

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1993, Pages 711-720

  Karaman, Mustafa ^a   Atalar, Abdullah ^a   Köymen, Hayrettin ^a  

^a BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARRAYS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MEDICAL IMAGING; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ADAPTIVE DIGITAL BEAMFORMING; PHASE ABERRATION CORRECTION METHOD; PHASED ARRAYS; ULTRASOUND RESOLUTION PHANTOM;

VLSI CIRCUITS;

EID: 0027840841     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: 1558254X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.251122     Document Type: Article

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