Capon beamforming in medical ultrasound imaging with focused beams

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 619-628

  Vignon, Francois ^a   Burcher, Michael R ^a  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACK-SCATTERED; BACKSCATTERED ECHOES; CAPON BEAMFORMING; DELAY AND SUMS; FOCUSED BEAMS; IMAGING PROBES; IN-VIVO IMAGES; INSONIFYING; LIMITED RESOLUTIONS; LINEAR ARRAYS; MEDICAL ULTRASOUND IMAGING; OFF-AXIS SIGNALS; RESOLUTION ENHANCEMENTS; SPATIAL FILTERS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; ULTRASOUND MEDICAL IMAGING; WEIGHT FUNCTIONS;

ACOUSTIC WAVES; FUNCTION EVALUATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; ULTRASONICS;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 44849101235     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2008.686     Document Type: Article

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