Correction of ultrasonic wave aberration with a time delay and amplitude filter

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 113, Issue 4 I, 2003, Pages 2009-2020

  Måsøy, Svein Erik ^a   Johansen, Tonni F ^a   Angelsen, Bjørn ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; ACOUSTIC SURFACE WAVE FILTERS; ULTRASONIC PROPAGATION;

ULTRASONIC WAVE ABERRATION;

ULTRASONIC WAVES;

ACOUSTICS; ULTRASONICS;

ACOUSTIC WAVE; ACOUSTICS; ULTRASONICS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ACCURACY; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; EVALUATION; FILTER; FREQUENCY ANALYZER; IMAGING SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; TECHNIQUE; THEORETICAL MODEL; ULTRASOUND; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER; WAVEFORM;

ARTIFACTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 0242585310     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1559174     Document Type: Article

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