Real-time 3-D ultrasound imaging using sparse synthetic aperture beamforming

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 980-988

  Lockwood, Geoffrey R ^a   Talman, James R ^a   Brunke, Shelby S ^b  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA LOBES; ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

GRATING LOBES; LINEAR PHASED ARRAYS; SPARSE SYNTHETIC APERTURE BEAMFORMING;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 0032118627     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/58.710573     Document Type: Article

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