Coherent array imaging using phased subarrays. Part II: Simulations and experimental results

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 51-64

  Johnson, Jeremy A ^a,b   Oralkan, Ömer ^a   Ergun, Sanh ^a   Demirci, Utkan ^a   Karaman, Mustafa ^c   Khuri Yakub, Butrus T ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ISIK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPACITIVE MICROMACHINED ULTRASOUND TRANDUCERS (CMUT); CLASSICAL SYNTHETIC APERTURES (CSA); CONTRAST-TO-NOISE RATIO (CNR); PHASED SUBARRAYS (PSA);

ARRAYS; BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORROSION; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION; INTERPOLATION; SCANNING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS; VEGETABLE OILS;

IMAGING SYSTEMS;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSDUCER; VALIDATION STUDY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, PULSED; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 13844253849     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2005.1397350     Document Type: Article

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