A ring transducer system for medical ultrasound research

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 53, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1707-1718

  Waag, Robert C ^a,b   Fedewa, Russell J ^a,c,d  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^c University of Rochester   (United States)

^d Focus Surgery Incorporated   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION SOFTWARE; PARALLEL TRANSMIT CHANNELS; RECEIVE APERTURES; ULTRASONIC RING TRANSDUCER SYSTEM;

BANDWIDTH; CHANNEL CAPACITY; MEDICAL IMAGING; MULTIPLEXING; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

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

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

EID: 33845653273     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2006.104     Document Type: Article

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