Delay generation methods with reduced memory requirements

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5035, Issue , 2003, Pages 491-500

  Tomov, Borislav Gueorguiev ^a   Jensen, Jørgen Arendt ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Beamforming; Compact; Delay generation; Parametric; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DELAY CIRCUITS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PIECEWISE LINEAR TECHNIQUES;

DELAY GENERATION;

ULTRASONICS;

EID: 0042358746     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.479957     Document Type: Conference Paper

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