Compact ultrasound scanner with built-in raw data acquisition capabilities

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 2259-2262

  Mo, L Y L ^a   DeBusschere, D ^a   Bai, W ^a   Napolitano, D ^a   Irish, A ^a   Marschall, S ^a   McLaughlin, G W ^a   Yang, Z ^b,c   Carson, P L ^b   Fowlkes, J B ^b  

^a ZONARE Medical Systems Inc   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^c Toshiba Medical Research Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Compact ultrasound; Pixel compounding; Raw data

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; COPYING; FIBER OPTICS; IMAGE QUALITY; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; PIXELS; POWDERS; SCANNING; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONICS;

APPLICATION EXAMPLES; BUILT-IN FEATURE; COMPACT ULTRASOUND; CURVED ARRAY; ECHO DATA; GAUSSIAN; IMAGE DATA; IMAGE FRAMES; IN-VIVO; LINEAR ARRAYS; NOISY DATA; PHASE INFORMATIONS; PIXEL COMPOUNDING; QUALITY IMPROVEMENTS; RADIO-FREQUENCY; RAW DATA; RESEARCH DATA; SUB-PIXEL DISPLACEMENTS; SUB-WAVELENGTH; ULTRASOUND SCANNERS; ULTRASOUND SYSTEMS; WAVEFORMS;

DATA ACQUISITION;

BATTERIES; DATA PROCESSING; FIBER OPTICS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; NYLON; POWDER; RESEARCH; SCANNERS; SCANNING; ULTRASONIC FREQUENCIES;

EID: 48149101588     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2007.568     Document Type: Conference Paper

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