Ultrasonic synthetic aperture angular scatter imaging

Conference Record - Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers

Volumn 1, Issue , 2004, Pages 163-167

  Guenther, D A ^a   Ranganathan, K ^a   McAllister, M J ^a   Walker, W F ^a   Rigby, K W ^b  

^a University of Virginia   (United States)

^b GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Angular scatter; Beam forming; Synthetic aperture

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR SCATTER; BEAMFORMING; DEPTH OF FIELD (DOF); SYNTHETIC APERTURE;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; DATA REDUCTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TISSUE; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONICS;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

EID: 21644453851     PISSN: 10586393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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