Volumetric ultrasound imaging using 2-D CMUT arrays

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 50, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1581-1594

  Oralkan, Ömer ^a,b   Ergun, A Sanli ^a   Cheng, Ching Hsiang ^a   Johnson, Jeremy A ^d   Karaman, Mustafa ^c   Lee, Thomas H ^b   Khuri Yakub, Butrus T ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

^c ISIK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC ARRAYS; FLIP CHIP DEVICES; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MANUFACTURE; TWO DIMENSIONAL; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

SYNTHETIC PHASED ARRAY APPROACH; TWO DIMENSIONAL CAPACITIVE MICROMACHINED ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS; VOLUMETRIC ULTRASOUND IMAGING;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EAV NUCLEOCAPSID PROTEIN, EQUINE ARTERITIS VIRUS; NUCLEOCAPSID PROTEIN;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRANSDUCER;

ALGORITHMS; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; NUCLEOCAPSID PROTEINS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 0442279547     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2003.1251142     Document Type: Article

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