Designing non-linear frequency modulated signals for medical ultrasound imaging

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 1714-1717

  Gran, Fredrik ^a   Jensen, Jørgen Arendt ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE SPECTRA; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; DESIGN METHOD; FINITE ENERGY; FM SIGNALS; IN-VIVO MEASUREMENT; INSTANTANEOUS FREQUENCY; LEAST-SQUARES OPTIMIZATION; LINEAR ARRAY TRANSDUCERS; MEDICAL ULTRASOUND IMAGING; NON-LINEAR; NON-LINEAR FREQUENCY MODULATED SIGNALS; PASS BANDS; PENETRATION DEPTH; PHASE SPECTRA; PROPER DESIGN; RANGE SIDELOBE SUPPRESSION; RANGE SIDELOBES; SIGNAL TO NOISE; SQUARED ERRORS; SYNTHETIC TRANSMIT APERTURE ULTRASOUND; THIRD ORDER; ULTRASOUND IMAGING; ULTRASOUND SYSTEM; WAVE FORMS; WAVEFORM DESIGNS;

DESIGN; FREQUENCY MODULATION; MATCHED FILTERS; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTIMIZATION; RADAR SYSTEMS; TRANSDUCERS;

ULTRASONICS;

EID: 54049104902     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2006.432     Document Type: Conference Paper

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