Practical spread spectrum pulse compression for ultrasonic tissue imaging

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 349-355

  Welch, Laurence R ^a   Fox, Martin D ^b  

^a Technology Service Corporation   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; ALGORITHMS; IMAGE COMPRESSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEDICAL IMAGING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

BARKER CODE COMPRESSION; BI-PHASE MODULATORS; SPREAD SPECTRUM PULSE COMPRESSION;

ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 0032012718     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/58.660145     Document Type: Article

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