Frequency division transmission imaging and synthetic aperture reconstruction

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 900-911

  Gran, Fredrik ^a   Jensen, Jørgen Arendt ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXCITATION WAVEFORMS; FREQUENCY MODULATED SIGNALS; MATCHED FILTER; PENETRATION DEPTH; SYNTHETIC TRANSMIT APERTURE (STA);

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FREQUENCY MODULATION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TRANSDUCERS; TRANSMITTERS;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; RADIO WAVES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 33744769108     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2006.1632681     Document Type: Article

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