Precise time-of-flight calculation for 3D synthetic aperture focusing

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 224-227

  Andresen, Henrik ^a,b   Nikolov, Svetoslav Ivanov ^a   Jensen, Jørgen Arendt ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b BK Medical   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARRAY PROCESSING; CAPACITANCE; IMAGING SYSTEMS; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; SIMULATED ANNEALING; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; TUMORS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONICS;

3D ULTRASOUND IMAGING; CONTRAST TO NOISES; ENERGY RATIOS; IN PLANES; LINEAR ARRAYS; MEAN ERRORS; PHANTOM MEASUREMENTS; POINT SPREAD FUNCTIONS; RESOLUTION IMPROVEMENTS; SAMPLING DISTANCES; SIMPLE EXPRESSIONS; SIMULATED DATUMS; SINGLE STEPS; STANDARD DEVIATIONS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE FOCUSING; TIME OF FLIGHTS; VIRTUAL SOURCES;

FOCUSING;

EID: 48149084590     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2007.67     Document Type: Conference Paper

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