Coded excitation for synthetic aperture ultrasound imaging

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 171-176

  O'Donnell, Matthew ^a   Wang, Yao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAMFORMING; CODED EXCITATION; IMAGING PULSE; ULTRASOUND IMAGING;

BANDWIDTH; DECODING; DIFFRACTION; GAIN MEASUREMENT; IMAGING SYSTEMS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

IMAGE CODING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ECHOGRAPHY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TRANSDUCER;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 15844399391     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2005.1406544     Document Type: Article

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