High frame rate imaging system for limited diffraction array beam imaging with square-wave aperture weightings

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 53, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1796-1811

  Lu, Jian Yu ^a,b   Cheng, Jiqi ^b   Wang, Jing ^b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b The University of Toledo   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION ARRAY BEAM IMAGING; HIGH FRAME RATE (HFR); RECEIVER CHANNELS; SQUARE WAVE APERTURE WEIGHTINGS;

BROADBAND NETWORKS; CHANNEL CAPACITY; DIGITAL TO ANALOG CONVERSION; ELECTRIC LOADS; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; TRANSMITTERS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SYSTEM; ECHOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; TRANSDUCER;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 33845602290     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2006.112     Document Type: Article

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