Influence of the ultrasound transducer bandwidth on selection of the complementary Golay bit code length

Ultrasonics

Volumn 47, Issue 1-4, 2007, Pages 64-73

  Nowicki, A ^a   Trots, I ^a   Lewin, P A ^b   Secomski, W ^a   Tymkiewicz, R ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Poland)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Complementary Golay sequences; Transducer bandwidth; Ultrasound imaging

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CODES (STANDARDS); SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

CODE LENGTH; COMPLEMENTARY GOLAY SEQUENCES; SPIKE EXCITATION; TRANSDUCER BANDWIDTH;

ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

ARTICLE; ECHOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TRANSDUCER;

DATA COMPRESSION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 36048936028     PISSN: 0041624X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultras.2007.07.003     Document Type: Article

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