Beamforming for photoacoustic imaging using linear array transducer

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 856-859

  Park, Suhyun ^a,b   Aglyamov, Salavat R ^b   Emelianov, Stanislav Y ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

Array transducer; Beamforming; Photoacoustic imaging; Reconstruction; Ultrasound imaging

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; ACOUSTIC WAVES; ACOUSTICS; BEAMFORMING; DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; PULSED LASER DEPOSITION; REFLECTION; REPAIR; RESTORATION; SIGNAL GENERATORS; STANDARDS; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC TRANSMISSION; ULTRASONICS;

ACOUSTIC PRESSURES; ARRAY TRANSDUCER; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; GRAY SCALING; IMAGE FORMATIONS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; IMAGING PROBES; LINEAR ARRAY TRANSDUCER; OPTICAL ABSORPTION; PHOTOACOUSTIC IMAGING; PULSE-ECHO ULTRASOUND; PULSED LASERS; RECONSTRUCTION; SIGNAL GENERATION; ULTRASOUND IMAGING; ULTRASOUND IMAGING SYSTEMS; ULTRASOUND SIGNALS; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCERS; WIDE BANDS;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 48149105307     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2007.219     Document Type: Conference Paper

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