Designing waveforms for temporal encoding using a frequency sampling method

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 54, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 2070-2081

  Gran, Fredrik ^b   Jensen, Jørgen Arendt ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; WAVE FILTERS;

FREQUENCY SAMPLING; MEDICAL ULTRASOUND IMAGING; NONLINEAR FREQUENCY;

WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SAMPLE SIZE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; DATA COMPRESSION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SAMPLE SIZE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 37049014471     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2007.502     Document Type: Article

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