Ultrasound Synthetic Aperture Imaging: Monostatic Approach

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 1994, Pages 333-339

  Ylitalo, Juha Tapani ^a   Ermert, Helmut ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA ACQUISITION; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; HOLOGRAMS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MICROCOMPUTERS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

BEAM SENSITIVITY; MONOSTATIC APPROACH; NUMERICAL RECONSTRUCTION; PROPOSED SYNTHETIC APERTURE; ULTRASOUND SYNTHETIC APERTURE IMAGING; WAVEFRONT BACKWARD PROPAGATION;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 0028439397     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/58.285467     Document Type: Article

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