Iteration of transmit-beam aberration correction in medical ultrasound imaging

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 450-461

  Måsøy, Svein Erik ^a   Varslot, Trond ^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; ACOUSTIC WAVE TRANSMISSION; ARRAYS; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; ITERATIVE METHODS; MEDICAL IMAGING; TRANSDUCERS;

AMPLITUDE FLUCTUATIONS; MEDICAL ULTRASONICS; RANDOM SCATTERERS; TRANSDUCER ARRAYS;

ULTRASONICS;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS MONITORING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION BEAM; SIMULATION; TIME; ULTRASOUND; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER;

HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 12344268095     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1823213     Document Type: Article

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