Imaging with large-aperture arrays with heterogeneous directive elements

Proceedings of the IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages 1243-1246

  Yao, Hui ^a   Ebbini, Emad S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APERTURE ARRAYS; BEAMFORMING; DUAL-MODE ARRAY (DMA); IMAGING FIELDS;

ALGORITHMS; BANDWIDTH; BEAM LEAD DEVICES; FILTRATION; IMAGE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

EID: 4143108846     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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