Development of a parallel acquisition system for ultrasound research

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4325, Issue , 2001, Pages 54-62

  Fabian, Christopher M ^a   Ballu, Kailash N ^a   Hossack, John A ^b   Blalock, Travis N ^a   Walker, William F ^b  

^a University of Virginia   (United States)

^b University of Virginia   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood flow; Medical instrumentation; Medical ultrasound; Phase aberration correction; Signal processing; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BANDWIDTH; DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS; VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING;

PARALLEL ACQUISITION SYSTEMS;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 0034859296     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.428238     Document Type: Article

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