Imaging with concave large-aperture therapeutic ultrasound arrays using conventional synthetic-aperture beamforming

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 55, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1705-1718

  Wan, Yayun ^a,b   Ebbini, Emad S ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; BEAMFORMING; DATA HANDLING; IMAGE QUALITY; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONICS; VERIFICATION;

BEAMFORMING ALGORITHMS; DUAL-MODE ULTRASOUND ARRAY SYSTEMS; EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATIONS; HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; IMAGE GUIDED SURGERY; TECHNOLOGICAL CONSTRAINTS; THERAPEUTIC EFFECTS; THERAPEUTIC ULTRASOUND;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CYST; ECHOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSDUCER; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CYSTS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 49449104307     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2008.856     Document Type: Article

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