Performance of a 50 MHz annular array based imaging system

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn 1, Issue , 2004, Pages 760-763

  Brown, Jeremy A ^a,b   Morton Démoré, Christine ^a   Foster, F S ^b   Lockwood, Geoffrey R ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNULAR ARRAYS; BEAMFORMERS; LOBES; TIMING ERROR;

ARRAYS; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); IMAGING TECHNIQUES; PERFORMANCE; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TRANSDUCERS;

IMAGING SYSTEMS;

EID: 21644459346     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2004.1417833     Document Type: Conference Paper

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