A spline-based approach for computing spatial impulse responses

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1045-1054

  Ellis, Michael A ^b   Guenther, Drake ^b   Walker, William F ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b University of Virginia   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYNOMIAL FUNCTIONS; SPATIAL IMPULSE RESPONSES;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMPULSE RESPONSE; MATLAB; OPTIMIZATION; POLYNOMIALS;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSDUCER;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 34250180944     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2007.350     Document Type: Article

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