A code division technique for multiple element synthetic aperture transmission

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 5, Issue 27, 2004, Pages 300-306

  Gran, Fredrik ^a   Jensen, Jørgen Arendt ^a   Jakobsson, Andreas ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b KARLSTAD UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Coded ultrasound; Joint channel estimation; Synthetic aperture ultrasound

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; ULTRASONICS;

CODED ULTRASOUND; JOINT CHANNEL ESTIMATION; SNR; SYNTHETIC APERTURE ULTRASOUND;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 12144280958     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.535222     Document Type: Conference Paper

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