Coded excitation methods for ultrasound harmonic imaging

Canadian Acoustics - Acoustique Canadienne

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 35-46

  Arshadi, Roozbeh ^a   Yu, Alfred C H ^a   Cobbold, Richard S C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; HARMONIC GENERATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

CODED EXCITATION METHODS; NONLINEAR ECHOES; SACRIFICING RESOLUTION;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 34547251781     PISSN: 07116659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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