Performance testing of medical ultrasound equipment: Fundamental vs. harmonic mode

Ultrasonics

Volumn 40, Issue 1-8, 2002, Pages 585-591

  Van Wijk, M C ^a   Thijssen, J M ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Clutter; Harmonic imaging; Lesion detection; Medical imaging; Performance testing; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

HARMONIC GENERATION; IMAGE QUALITY; MEDICAL IMAGING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TISSUE;

MEDICAL ULTRASOUND EQUIPMENTS;

ULTRASONIC EQUIPMENT;

EID: 0036566292     PISSN: 0041624X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0041-624X(02)00177-4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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