Synthetic aperture ultrasound imaging

Ultrasonics

Volumn 44, Issue SUPPL., 2006, Pages

  Jensen, Jørgen Arendt ^a   Nikolov, Svetoslav Ivanov ^a   Gammelmark, Kim Løkke ^a   Pedersen, Morten Høgholm ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Synthetic aperture; Ultrasound imaging; Vector velocity estimation

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); DATA STRUCTURES; IMAGE ANALYSIS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

DATA SETS; FRAME RATE; MEDICAL ULTRASOUND; SYNTHETIC APERTURE IMAGING; ULTRASOUND SCANNER; VECTOR VELOCITY ESTIMATION;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ARTERY; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW;

ARTERIES; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 33845867170     PISSN: 0041624X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultras.2006.07.017     Document Type: Article

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