Element size effect on phase aberration correction

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1212-1221

  Lin, D L Donald ^a  

^a SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION FUNCTION; PHASE ABERRATION CORRECTION; RESIDUAL PHASE ERROR; TIME DELAY ERROR; ULTRASONIC BEAMFORMING;

ABERRATIONS; ACOUSTIC ARRAYS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; ERROR CORRECTION; INVERSE PROBLEMS; ONE DIMENSIONAL; RANDOM PROCESSES; SIGNAL DISTORTION; TISSUE; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; ECHOGRAPHY; FOURIER ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSDUCER;

FOURIER ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MODELS, THEORETICAL; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 0036725653     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2002.1041537     Document Type: Article

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