Fast parametric beamformer for synthetic aperture imaging

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 55, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1755-1767

  Nikolov, Svetoslav Ivanov ^b   Jensen, Jørgen Arendt ^a,b   Tomov, Borislav Gueorguiev ^b  

^a IEEE

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAMFORMING; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; DIGITAL COMPUTERS; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA); GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGING SYSTEMS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

APODIZATION; BEAM FORMATION; BEAM FORMERS; COMPLEX SAMPLES; COORDINATE ROTATION DIGITAL COMPUTER ALGORITHMS; DELAY CALCULATION; FIELD-PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS; GRATING LOBES; HIGH-RESOLUTION IMAGING; INTEGER NUMBERS; INTERMEDIATE RESULTS; LOW-RESOLUTION IMAGES; PIECE-WISE LINEAR APPROXIMATION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE BEAMFORMER; SYNTHETIC APERTURE IMAGING; SYNTHETIC TRANSMIT APERTURE IMAGING; TIME DELAYING; ULTRASOUND SCANNERS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRANSDUCER;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 49449105323     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2008.860     Document Type: Article

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