Preliminary in-vivo evaluation of convex array synthetic aperture imaging

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 5, Issue 27, 2004, Pages 33-43

  Pedersen, Morten H ^a   Gammelmark, Kim L ^a   Jensen, Jørgen A ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Clinical evaluation; Image comparison; Medical ultrasound; Synthetic aperture imaging

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ACQUISITION; ESTIMATION; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; SCANNING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; THREE DIMENSIONAL; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONICS;

CLINICAL EVALUATION; IMAGE COMPARISON; MEDICAL ULTRASOUND; SYNTHETIC APERTURE IMAGING; SYNTHETIC TRANSMIT APERTURE (STA);

SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

EID: 12144250692     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.535084     Document Type: Conference Paper

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