Speckle statistics in adaptive beamforming

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1545-1548

  Synnevåg, Johan Fredrik ^a   Nilsen, Carl Inge Colombo ^a   Holm, Sverre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COVARIANCE MATRIX; ESTIMATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MATRIX ALGEBRA; SPECKLE; STATISTICAL METHODS; ULTRASONICS;

ADAPTIVE BEAMFORMING; BEAM FORMERS; DELAY-AND-SUM; MINIMUM VARIANCE; MINIMUM VARIANCE BEAMFORMING; POINT SCATTERERS; RF DATA; SPATIAL AVERAGING; SPATIAL COVARIANCE MATRIX; SPATIAL RESOLUTION SR); SPECKLE PATTERNING; SPECKLE STATISTICS; TEMPORAL AVERAGING;

BEAMFORMING;

EID: 48149085876     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2007.389     Document Type: Conference Paper

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