Capon beamforming for active ultrasound imaging systems

2009 IEEE 13th Digital Signal Processing Workshop and 5th IEEE Signal Processing Education Workshop, DSP/SPE 2009, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 60-65

  Holm, Sverre ^a,b   Synnevåg, Johan Fredrik ^a   Austeng, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; BEAMFORMING; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS; ULTRASONICS;

CAPON BEAMFORMING; DIAGONAL LOADINGS; MEDICAL ULTRASOUND IMAGING; NEAR-FIELD FOCUSING; POINT TARGETS; REAL-TIME OPERATIONS; SUB APERTURES; ULTRASOUND IMAGING SYSTEMS; WIDE BANDWIDTHS;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 63649097936     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/DSP.2009.4785896     Document Type: Conference Paper

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