Influence of Missing Array Elements on Phase Aberration Correction for Medical Ultrasound

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 1994, Pages 613-620

  Karaman, Mustafa ^a   Köymen, Hayrettin ^b   Atalar, Abdullah ^b   O'Donnell, Matthew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; CORRELATION METHODS; CORRELATION THEORY; ELECTRIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MEDICAL IMAGING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL DISTORTION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; ULTRASONICS;

CROSS CORRELATION; MEDICAL ULTRASOUND; MISSING ARRAY ELEMENTS; PHASE ABERRATION CORRECTION; RADIO FREQUENCY SIGNALS; TIME DELAY ESTIMATION;

ERROR CORRECTION;

EID: 0028500024     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/58.308496     Document Type: Article

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