A new multi-beam approach to real-time 3-D imaging

Proceedings of the IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn 2, Issue , 2002, Pages 1803-1806

  Wall, Kieran ^a   Lockwood, Geoffrey R ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS; INTERPOLATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

LINEAR INTERPOLATION; MULTI-TRANSMIT SYNTHETIC APERTURE BEAM FORMING;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 0036992242     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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