Synthetic aperture-based beam compression for intravascular ultrasound imaging

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 189-201

  Vray, Didier ^a,b   Haas, Christine ^a,b   Rastello, Thierry ^b   Krueger, Martin ^a,c   Brusseau, Elisabeth ^b   Schrocder, Katrin ^c   Gimenez, Gérard ^b   Ermert, Helmut ^c  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^c RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND IMAGING (IVUS); SYNTHETIC APERTURE FOCUSING TECHNIQUE (SAFT);

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; ECHOGRAPHY; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TRANSDUCER;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORONARY VESSELS; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 0034745856     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/58.896132     Document Type: Article

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