Accurate estimation of scattering strength distribution by simultaneous reception of ultrasonic echoes with multichannel transducer array

Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, Part 1: Regular Papers and Short Notes and Review Papers

Volumn 46, Issue 7 B, 2007, Pages 4813-4819

  Abe, Yusaku ^a   Hasegawa, Hideyuki ^a   Kanai, Hiroshi ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Frame rate; Lateral resolution; Parallel processing; Simultaneous reception; Synthetic aperture; Truncated singular value decomposition

Indexed keywords

ARRAY PROCESSING; DATA STRUCTURES; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; TRANSDUCERS;

FRAME RATE; LATERAL RESOLUTION; SIMULTANEOUS RECEPTION; TRUNCATED SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 34547914131     PISSN: 00214922     EISSN: 13474065     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1143/JJAP.46.4813     Document Type: Article

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