A speckle target adaptive imaging technique in the presence of distributed aberrations

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 140-151

  Ng, Gary C ^a   Freiburger, Paul D ^a   Walker, William F ^a   Trahey, Gregg E ^a  

^a Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL FILTERS; SPECKLE; TISSUE;

PHASE CONJUGATE FILTERS; SPECKLE TARGET ADAPTIVE IMAGING; THIN PHASE SCREEN; TRANSLATING TRANSMIT APERTURE ALGORITHM;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 0030781870     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/58.585209     Document Type: Article

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