High resolution ultrasonic brain imaging: Adaptive focusing based on twin-arrays

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn V, Issue , 2005, Pages 973-976

  Vignon, F ^a   Aubry, J F ^a   Tanter, M ^a   Fink, M ^a  

^a INSTITUT LANGEVIN   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE; BRAIN; IMAGE QUALITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHASE SHIFT; ULTRASONICS;

DEFOCUSING EFFECT; LINEAR ARRAYS; SKULL BONE; TRANSCRANIAL IMAGING;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 33646806820     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2005.1416468     Document Type: Conference Paper

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