Third harmonic transmit phasing for tissue harmonic generation

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 54, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1370-1381

  Shen, Che Chou ^a   Wang, Yu Chun ^a   Hsieh, Yi Chun ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; HARMONIC GENERATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS; TISSUE;

FREQUENCY-DIFFERENCE COMPONENTS; HARMONIC ENHANCEMENT; HARMONIC TRANSMIT PHASING; SPECTRAL SIGNALS;

PHASE MODULATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 34547523031     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2007.397     Document Type: Article

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