High frequency coded imaging system with RF software signal processing

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 55, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1878-1882

  Lewandowski, Marcin ^a   Nowicki, Andrzej ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; CODES (STANDARDS); CODES (SYMBOLS); DATA PROCESSING; DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA); IMAGING SYSTEMS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONICS;

ARBITRARY WAVEFORM; CODED EXCITATION; CODED TRANSMISSION; COST IMPLEMENTATIONS; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAY; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCIES; HIGH FREQUENCIES; HIGH SPEEDS; IMAGE DATA PROCESSING; MODULE BASED; QUANTITATIVE DATA; REAL-TIME IMAGING; REAL-TIME PROCESSING; REAL-TIME STREAMING; RESEARCH AND EVALUATION; RF DATA; ULTRASOUND IMAGING; USB INTERFACES;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LETTER; METHODOLOGY; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ALGORITHMS; DATA COMPRESSION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIO WAVES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 49449116989     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2008.871     Document Type: Article

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