Ultrasound research scanner for real-time synthetic aperture data acquisition

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 881-891

  Jensen, Jørgen Arendt ^a   Holm, Ole ^b   Jensen, Lars Joost ^b   Bendsen, Henrik ^b   Nikolov, Svetoslav Ivanov ^a   Tomov, Borislav Gueorguiev ^a   Munk, Peter ^a   Hansen, Martin ^b   Salomonsen, Kent ^b   Hansen, Johnny ^b   Gormsen, Kim ^b   Pedersen, Henrik Møller ^a,b   Gammelmark, Kim L ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b IO Technologies A/S   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3D IMAGING; IMAGE ACQUISITION; TRANSDUCER ELEMENTS; ULTRASOUND SCANNERS;

ARRAYS; DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MULTIPLEXING; RANDOM ACCESS STORAGE; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SCANNING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

ANALOG DIGITAL CONVERTER; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER NETWORK; COMPUTER SYSTEM; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROCOMPUTER; ONLINE SYSTEM; RESEARCH; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TRANSDUCER;

ANALOG-DIGITAL CONVERSION; COMPUTER COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ELECTRONICS, MEDICAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROCOMPUTERS; MINIATURIZATION; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RESEARCH; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 23844477961     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2005.1503974     Document Type: Article

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