A novel beamformer design method for medical ultrasound. Part II: Simulation results

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 25-39

  Ranganathan, Karthik ^a   Walker, William F ^a  

^a University of Virginia   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FIR FILTERS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS;

MEDICAL ULTRASOUND; MINIMUM SUM SQUARED ERROR TECHNIQUE; ULTRASOUND BEAMFORMER DESIGN;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION SCATTERING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TRANSDUCER; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MODELS, STATISTICAL; QUALITY CONTROL; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 0037208246     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2003.1176523     Document Type: Article

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