High frame-rate and high resolution medical imaging using adaptive beamforming

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 2164-2167

  Synnevåg, Johan Fredrik ^a   Austeng, Andreas ^a   Holm, Sverre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEAMFORMING; BEAM FORMERS; BEAM WIDTHS; DYNAMIC FOCUS; FOCAL ZONES; FRAME-RATE; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGE; LATERAL RESOLUTION; LOW SIDELOBE LEVEL; MEDICAL ULTRASOUND IMAGING; MINIMUM VARIANCE; TRANSMITTED BEAMS;

BEAMFORMING; IMAGE QUALITY; ULTRASONICS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 48149091890     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2006.545     Document Type: Conference Paper

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