Ultrasonic annular array system for detecting tissue motion

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4687, Issue , 2002, Pages 171-181

  Mhanna, H Sean ^a   Trummer, B ^a   Kargel, Ch ^a   Insana, M F ^a  

^a University of California Davis   (United States)

Author keywords

Annular array; Depth of focus; Field II; Spatial resolution; Synthetic receive aperture

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ARRAYS; ELASTICITY; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

ANNULAR ARRAYS;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 0036029729     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.462152     Document Type: Conference Paper

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