Recursive delay calculation unit for parametric beamformer

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6147, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Nikolov, Svetoslav I ^a   Jensen, Jørgen A ^a   Tomov, Borislav ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Directional flow estimation; Medical ultrasound; Parametric delay calculation; Synthetic aperture imaging

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CALCULATIONS; JUNCTION GATE FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; SIGNAL RECEIVERS;

DIRECTIONAL FLOW ESTIMATION; MEDICAL ULTRASOUND; PARAMETRIC DELAY CALCULATION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE IMAGING;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 33745377330     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.653573     Document Type: Conference Paper

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