Synthetic Aperture Imaging for Small Scale Systems

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 1995, Pages 429-442

  Karaman, Mustafa ^a   Li, Pai Chi ^b   O'Donnell, Matthew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARRAYS; DATA ACQUISITION; FREQUENCIES; IMAGE QUALITY; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; TRANSDUCERS;

ACOUSTIC POWER; ARRAY APERTURES; DYNAMIC FOCUS; ECHO SIGNALS; GEL PHANTOMS; RECEIVE SUBAPERTURE; SMALL SCALE SYSTEMS; SPATIAL RESPONSE; TRANSDUCER ARRAY; TRANSMIT SUBAPERTURE;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

EID: 0029308577     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/58.384453     Document Type: Article

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