Clinical evaluation of chirp-coded excitation in medical ultrasound

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 895-905

  Pedersen, Morten H ^a,b   Misaridis, Thanassis X ^a,c   Jensen, Jørgen A ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

Chirp excitation; Coded excitation; Image comparison; In vivo comparison; Ultrasound imaging

Indexed keywords

IMAGE QUALITY; RADAR; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SONOCHEMISTRY; ULTRASONICS;

CHIRP-CODED EXCITATION;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ABDOMINAL SCINTISCANNING; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EVALUATION; EXCITATION; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; ULTRASOUND;

EID: 0037972744     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-5629(02)00784-6     Document Type: Article

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