Coded excitation for diagnostic ultrasound: A system developer's perspective

Proceedings of the IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn 1, Issue , 2003, Pages 437-448

  Chiao, Richard Y ^a   Hao, Xiaohui ^a  

^a GE MEDICAL SYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CODED EXCITATION; DIAGNOSTIC ULTRASOUND; FREQUENCY-DEPENDENT ATTENUATION; NONLINEAR PROPAGATION;

ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; BIOMEDICAL EQUIPMENT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTRAST MEDIA; DECODING; DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE CODING; IMAGE QUALITY; MEDICAL IMAGING;

ULTRASONICS;

EID: 4143062703     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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