Use of modulated excitation signals in medical ultrasound. Part III: High frame rate imaging

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 208-218

  Misaridis, Thanassis ^a   Jensen, Jørgen Arendt ^b  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE CODING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TRANSDUCERS;

ECHOES; EXCITATION SIGNALS; MEDICAL ULTRASOUND; PHASED ARRAYS;

ULTRASONICS;

ECHOGRAPHY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MATHEMATICS; METHODOLOGY; QUALITY CONTROL; REVIEW; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MATHEMATICS; QUALITY CONTROL; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 15844362336     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2005.1406547     Document Type: Article

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