Adaptive beamforming applied to medical ultrasound imaging

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 54, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1606-1613

  Synnevåg, Jnhan Fredrik ^a,b   Austeng, Andreas ^a,b   Holm, Sverre ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAMFORMING; IMAGE QUALITY; MEDICAL IMAGING;

DIAGONAL LOADING; VENTRICULAR WALLS; WAVEFLELD PARAMETERS;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ARTICLE; ECHOGRAPHY; HEART; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

HEART; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 34548081119     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2007.431     Document Type: Article

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