Development of transducer arrays for ultrasound-computertomography

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5035, Issue , 2003, Pages 513-520

  Stotzka, Rainer ^a   Göel, Georg ^a   Schlote Holubek, Klaus ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Breast imaging; Circular array; Diffraction; Transducer array; Ultrasound; Ultrasound computer tomography

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFRACTION; SCANNING; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

TRANSDUCER ARRAY;

ULTRASONICS;

EID: 0041356967     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.479964     Document Type: Conference Paper

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