Ultrafast phase aberration correction in ultrasound imaging using a simple model for fat layer

National Radio Science Conference, NRSC, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Ehab, Ahmed M ^a   Farouk, Zyad ^a   Youssef, Abou Bakr M ^a   Kadah, Yasser M ^a  

^a CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Beamforming; Image reconstruction; Phase aberration; Ultrasound imaging

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OPTICS;

COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; DIGITAL BEAM FORMING (DBF); EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; OBJECTIVE FUNCTION (OF); PHASE ABERRATIONS; QUALITATIVE ASSESSMENTS; RADIO SCIENCE; RADIOFREQUENCY (RF) DATA; REGION -OF-INTEREST (ROI); SIMPLE MODELING; ULTRAFAST PHASE; ULTRASOUND (US) IMAGES;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 46649106704     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NRSC.2006.386384     Document Type: Conference Paper

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