Adaptive multi-element synthetic aperture imaging with motion and phase aberration correction

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1077-1087

  Karaman, Mustafa ^a   Bilge, Hasan ^b   O'Donnell, Matthew ^c  

^a BASKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b KIRIKKALE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; IMAGE QUALITY; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

ADAPTIVE MULTI ELEMENT SYNTHETIC APERTURE IMAGING; MOTION ABERRATION CORRECTION; PHASE ABERRATION CORRECTION;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 0032115862     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/58.710591     Document Type: Article

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