Extended high-frame rate imaging method with limited-diffraction beams

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 880-899

  Cheng, Jiqi ^a   Lu, Jian Yu ^{a,b,c,d,e,f,g}  

^a The University of Toledo   (United States)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF OHIO   (United States)

^c American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM)   (United States)

^d IEEE   (United States)

^e ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA   (United States)

^f AAAS   (United States)

^g Sigma Xi ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE FRAME RATE; IMAGING THEORY; LIMITED DIFFRACTION ARRAY BEAM; PULSED PLANE WAVE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SYSTEM; ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VIDEORECORDING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 33744725905     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2006.1632680     Document Type: Article

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