Design guidelines for medical ultrasonic arrays

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3341, Issue , 1998, Pages 2-18

  McKeighen, Ronald E ^a  

^a Acoustic Imaging Transducers Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Beamforming; Broadband; System; Transducer; Two dimensional arrays; Ultrasonic arrays

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CERAMIC MATERIALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; IMAGE QUALITY; IMPULSE RESPONSE; MEDICAL IMAGING; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SCANNING;

ULTRASONIC ARRAYS;

ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 0032402972     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.307992     Document Type: Conference Paper

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