Parameter study of 3D synthetic aperture post-beamforming procedure

Ultrasonics

Volumn 44, Issue SUPPL., 2006, Pages

  Nikolov, Svetoslav I ^a   Santén, Peter ^a   Bjuvsten, Ola ^a   Jensen, Jørgen A ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Post beamforming; Synthetic aperture ultrasound; Virtual sources

Indexed keywords

BIOMIMETIC MATERIALS; BLOOD VESSELS; IMAGE QUALITY; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONICS;

ATHEROSCLEROTIC LESIONS; POST BEAMFORMING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE ULTRASOUND; VIRTUAL SOURCES;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERY; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; CAROTID ARTERIES; CAROTID STENOSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 33845719419     PISSN: 0041624X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultras.2006.06.048     Document Type: Article

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