Ultrasound beam propagation using the hybrid angular spectrum method

Proceedings of the 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS'08 - "Personalized Healthcare through Technology"

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 2526-2529

  Vyas, Urvi ^a   Christensen, Douglas ^a,b  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUMERICAL METHODS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

ABSORPTION CO-EFFICIENT; ANGULAR SPECTRUM METHOD; FAST SIMULATION; INHOMOGENEOUS TISSUES; ULTRASOUND BEAM PROPAGATION; ULTRASOUND BEAMS;

TISSUE ENGINEERING;

ABSORPTION; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOPHYSICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PRESSURE; REPRODUCIBILITY; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSDUCER;

ABSORPTION; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BIOPHYSICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PRESSURE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 61849157511     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/iembs.2008.4649714     Document Type: Conference Paper

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