An iterative synthetic aperture imaging algorithm with correction of diffraction effects

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1008-1017

  Wennerström, Erik ^b   Stepinski, Tadeusz ^a,b   Olofsson, Tomas ^b  

^a IEEE

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; OPTIMIZATION;

EXTENDED SYNTHETIC APERTURE TECHNIQUE; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; PARAMETER MATRIX; ULTRASONIC DATA;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 33744771972     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2006.1632690     Document Type: Article

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