New demodulation method for efficient phase-rotation-based beamforming

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 54, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1656-1667

  Agarwal, Anup ^a,b   Yoo, Yang Mo ^a,b   Schneider, Fabio Kurt ^a,b   Gao, Changqing ^c   Koh, Liang Mong ^c   Kim, Yongmin ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEMODULATION; HARMONIC DISTORTION; IMAGE QUALITY; LOW PASS FILTERS;

LOWPASS FILTERING; PHASE DELAY ERRORS; ULTRASOUND MACHINES;

BEAMFORMING;

ARTICLE; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 34548099972     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2007.437     Document Type: Article

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