Dual-arrays brain imaging prototype: Experimental in Vitro results

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn 1, Issue , 2005, Pages 504-507

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

^a INSTITUT LANGEVIN   (France)

^b Lecoeur Electronique ^*  (France)

Author keywords

Aberration corrections; Adaptive focusing; Beamforming; Brain; Component; Inverse filter

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; BRAIN; DIFFUSION; PHASE SHIFT; ULTRASONICS;

ABERRATION CORRECTIONS; ADAPTIVE FOCUSING; INVERSE FILTER;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

EID: 33847120832     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2005.1602901     Document Type: Conference Paper

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