Biomedical ultrasound beam forming

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 1994, Pages 403-428

  Lu, Jian Yu ^a   Zou, Hehong ^a   Greenleaf, James F ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Arrays; Bandwidth; Beam forming; Focused beams; Gaussian beams; Grating lobes; Imaging; Limited diffraction beams; Localized waves; Nondestructive evaluation; Scan; Sidelobes; Steering; Subluminal; Subsonic; Superluminal; Tissue characterization; Ultrasonic transducers; Unweighted beams; Weighted beams

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MEDICAL IMAGING; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

BEAM PARAMETERS; BIOMEDICAL ULTRASOUND BEAM FORMING; CONTRAST; FIELD DEPTH; FRAME RATE; LATERAL AND AXIAL RESOLUTIONS;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFRACTION; ECHOGRAPHY; IMAGE QUALITY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER;

SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; ULTRASONICS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 0028277371     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0301-5629(94)90097-3     Document Type: Review

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