Chirp-coded excitation imaging with a high-frequency ultrasound annular array

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 508-513

  Mamou, Jonathan ^a,b   Ketterling, Jeffrey A ^a,b   Silverman, Ronald H ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b RIVERSIDE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPTH OF FIELD (DOF); ULTRASOUND ANNULAR ARRAY; WAVEFORM GENERATORS;

ALGORITHMS; DATA ACQUISITION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TISSUE; TRANSDUCERS;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INSTRUMENTATION; LETTER; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TRANSDUCER;

ALGORITHMS; DATA COMPRESSION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 40549101562     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2008.670     Document Type: Article

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