Approach to 3-D ultrasound high resolution imaging for mechanically moving large-aperture transducer based upon Fourier transform

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 49, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1665-1685

  Benenson, Zalman M ^a   Elizarov, Alexey B ^a   Yakovleva, Tatiana V ^a   O'Brien Jr , William D ^b  

^a RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; TRANSCEIVERS; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC TRANSMISSION; WAVE EQUATIONS;

THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3-D) ACOUSTIC IMAGING;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYST; ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRANSDUCER; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYSTS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 0036883374     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2002.1159846     Document Type: Article

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