Simulation of ultrasonic imaging with linear arrays in causal absorptive media

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 245-259

  Berkhoff, A P ^a   Thijssen, J M ^a   Homan, R J F ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Causal absorptive media; Dispersion; Image quality; Linear array; Plane wave expansion; Ultrasound simulation; Wavefield extrapolation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; IMAGE QUALITY; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; NUMERICAL METHODS; ULTRASONIC ABSORPTION; ULTRASONIC DISPERSION; ULTRASONIC PROPAGATION; ULTRASONIC RELAXATION; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

CAUSAL ABSORPTIVE MEDIA; LINEAR ARRAYS; PLANEWAVE EXPANSION; WAVEFIELD EXTRAPOLATION;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ABSORPTION; ACOUSTICS; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISPERSION; ECHOGRAPHY; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; IMAGE QUALITY; LINEAR SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY; SIMULATION; SOUND PRESSURE; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER;

EID: 0029918192     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0301-5629(95)02034-9     Document Type: Article

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