Adaptive focusing for transcranial ultrasound imaging using dual arrays

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 120, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 2737-2745

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

^a INSTITUT LANGEVIN   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; IMAGE QUALITY; LIGHT ABSORPTION; PHASE SHIFTERS; REFRACTION; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONICS;

ADAPTIVE FOCUSING; LINEAR ARRAYS; ULTRASONIC BRAIN IMAGING; ULTRASONIC WAVE PROPAGATION;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ARTICLE; DEVICE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FOURIER ANALYSIS; IMAGING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MODEL; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKULL; TECHNIQUE; TRANSDUCER; ULTRASOUND;

ADULT; CHILD; ECHOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SKULL; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 33750293355     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2354073     Document Type: Article

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