Investigation of the feasibility of 3D synthetic aperture imaging

Proceedings of the IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages 1903-1906

  Nikolov, Svetoslav Ivanov ^a   Jensen, Jørgen Arendt ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INTERPOLATION; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SCANNING; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

ANGULAR RESOLUTION; APODIZATION; LINEAR ARRAYS; THREE DIMENSIONAL SYNTHETIC APERTURE IMAGING;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 4143071731     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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