Compact implementation of dynamic receive apodization in ultrasound scanners

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 5, Issue 27, 2004, Pages 260-271

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

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Aperture weighting; Apodization; Beamforming; Compact; Delay generation; Parametric; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

APERTURE WEIGHTING; APODIZATION; BEAMFORMING; COMPACTS; DELAY GENERATION; PARAMETRIC;

ALGORITHMS; ARRAYS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DYNAMICS; FUNCTIONS; IMAGE QUALITY; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; LIGHT; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 12144280369     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.532957     Document Type: Conference Paper

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