Bandwidth and resolution enhancement through pulse compression

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 768-781

  Oelze, Michael L ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

A CENTERS; AXIAL RESOLUTIONS; ECHO SIGNALS; EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; MODULATION TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; PLANAR REFLECTORS; PULSE COMPRESSION TECHNIQUES; PULSE/ECHO; PULSING TECHNIQUES; RANGE SIDELOBES; RESOLUTION ENHANCEMENTS; SINGLE-ELEMENT TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING SYSTEMS; ULTRASOUND SOURCES;

BANDWIDTH; BANDWIDTH COMPRESSION; DATA COMPRESSION; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEMS; LASER PRODUCED PLASMAS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PULSE COMPRESSION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONICS;

ULTRASONIC TESTING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ALGORITHMS; DATA COMPRESSION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 34248573747     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2007.310     Document Type: Article

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