Combining pulse compression and adaptive drive signal design to inverse filter the transducer system response and improve resolution in medical ultrasound

Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 318-320

  Venkatraman, S ^a   Rao, N A H K ^a  

^a ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Frequency modulation; Inverse filtering; Pulse compression; Speckle; Ultrasonic imaging

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE FILTERING; FREQUENCY MODULATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

ADAPTIVE DRIVE SIGNAL DESIGN; INVERSE FILTERING; PULSE COMPRESSION; TISSUE MIMICKING PHANTOMS; TRANSDUCER SYSTEM RESPONSE; WIRE TARGETS;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ARTICLE; COMPRESSION; FILTRATION; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING; PHANTOM; TRANSDUCER; ULTRASOUND;

HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 0030199243     PISSN: 01400118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02511247     Document Type: Article

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