Theoretical assessment of a synthetic aperture beamformer for real-time 3-D imaging

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 972-980

  Hazard, Christopher R ^a   Lockwood, Geoffrey R ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAYS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); IMAGE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INTERPOLATION; PIPELINE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE BEAMFORMER; SYNTHETIC APERTURE IMAGE;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 0032636279     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/58.775664     Document Type: Article

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