Curved two-dimensional arrays in ultrasound

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn 2, Issue , 2004, Pages 1274-1277

  Kirkebø, Jan Egil ^a   Austeng, Andreas ^a   Holm, Sverre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARRAYS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE QUALITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SIMULATED ANNEALING; TRANSMITTERS;

ECHO IMAGING; GRATING LOBES; RECTILINEAR IMAGING; SIDELOBE LEVELLS;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 21644447637     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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