Synthetic elevation beamforming and image acquisition capabilities using an 8 × 128 1.75D array

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 40-57

  Fernandez, Anna T ^a   Gammelmark, Kim L ^b   Dahl, Jeremy J ^a   Keen, Constance G ^a   Gauss, Roderick C ^c   Trahey, Gregg E ^a  

^a Duke University   (United States)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; ACOUSTIC ARRAYS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ACQUISITION; FOCUSING; IMAGE QUALITY; MEDICAL IMAGING;

IMAGE ACQUISITION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE IMAGING; SYNTHETIC ELEVATION BEAMFORMING; SYNTHETIC ELEVATION IMAGING; SYNTHETIC TRANSMIT IMAGING;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYST; ECHOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION SCATTERING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSDUCER;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; CYSTS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; QUALITY CONTROL; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 0037267387     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2003.1176524     Document Type: Article

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