Improved Synthetic Aperture Focusing Technique with Applications in High-Frequency Ultrasound Imaging

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 63-70

  Li, Meng Lin ^a   Guan, Wei Jung ^a   Li, Pai Chi ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARRAYS; ATTENUATION; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; MEDICAL IMAGING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SINGLE CRYSTALS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; WAVE PROPAGATION;

COHERANCE FACTORS (CF); SYNTHETIC APERTURE FOCUSING TECHNIQUES (SAFT); TIME DELAY;

SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CYST; ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; KIDNEY; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION SCATTERING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CYSTS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; KIDNEY; MICE; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 1342282245     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2004.1268468     Document Type: Article

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