Optimization of frequency dependent receive apodization

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn 4, Issue , 2005, Pages 1988-1991

  Schwann, R ^a   Stache, N ^a   Noll, T G ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Contrast; Fill in; Point spread function; Resolution

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FIR FILTERS; IMAGE QUALITY; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; OPTIMIZATION; ULTRASONICS;

APODIZATION FILTER TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; CONVENTIONAL APODIZATION; LOCAL SEARCH ALGORITHMS; ULTRASOUND SYSTEMS;

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 33847134815     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2005.1603266     Document Type: Conference Paper

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