Improved beamforming using curved sparse 2D arrays in ultrasound

Ultrasonics

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 119-128

  Kirkebø, Jan Egil ^a   Austeng, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Array(s); Beamforming; Curved; Imaging; Periodic; Sparse; Two dimensional; Ultrasound; Wideband

Indexed keywords

BEAMFORMING; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; IMAGE QUALITY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; TRANSDUCERS; TWO DIMENSIONAL; VOLUMETRIC ANALYSIS;

BEAMWIDTH; ELEMENT PERIODICITY; GRATING LOBES; TWO DIMENSIONAL ARRAYS;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 34247536002     PISSN: 0041624X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultras.2007.01.001     Document Type: Article

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