Equipment and methods for synthetic aperture anatomic and flow imaging

Proceedings of the IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn 2, Issue , 2002, Pages 1555-1564

  Jensen, Jørgen Arendt ^a   Nikolov, Svetoslav I ^a   Misaridis, Thanassis ^a   Gammelmark, Kim L ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC EMISSIONS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; MOTION COMPENSATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC VELOCITY;

ANATOMIC IMAGING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE IMAGING; VELOCITY IMAGING;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 0036996119     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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