Effect of changing the transmit aperture on the spatial coherence of backscatter for the nonlinearly generated second harmonic

Proceedings of the IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn 2, Issue , 2002, Pages 1665-1668

  Fedewa, Russell J ^a   Wallace, Kirk D ^a   Holland, Mark R ^a   Jago, James R ^b   Ng, Gary C ^b   Rielly, Matthew R ^b   Robinson, Brent S ^b   Miller, James G ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC ARRAYS; ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; BACKSCATTERING; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; HYDROPHONES; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION; ULTRASONIC MEASUREMENT; ULTRASONIC TRANSMISSION;

NONLINEARLY GENERATED SECOND HARMONIC; TRANSMIT APODIZATIONS;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 0036990269     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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