Effects of transmit focusing on finite amplitude distortion based second harmonic generation

Ultrasonic Imaging

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 243-258

  Li, Pai Chi ^a   Shen, Che Chou ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Acoustic amplitude distribution; Dynamic transmit focusing; Finite amplitude distortion; Tissue harmonic imaging; Ultrasonic imaging

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC FIELDS; FOCUSING; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; HARMONIC GENERATION; HYDROPHONES; IMAGING SYSTEMS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

AMPLITUDE DISTRIBUTIONS; CONTRAST RESOLUTION; FINITE-AMPLITUDE DISTORTION; IMAGING PARAMETERS; SECOND HARMONIC SIGNALS; SECOND HARMONICS; SECOND-HARMONIC IMAGING; TISSUE HARMONIC IMAGING;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; DYNAMICS; FREQUENCY MODULATION; IMAGING SYSTEM; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; TRANSDUCER; ULTRASOUND;

EID: 0033492442     PISSN: 01617346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/016173469902100401     Document Type: Article

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