Waveform synthesis for the design and image reconstruction of step FMCW ultrasound imaging systems with conformal transducer arrays

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7265, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Lee, Michael ^a   Singh, Rahul S ^a,b   Culjat, Martin O ^a,b   Natarajan, Shyam ^a   Cox, Brian P ^a   Brown, Elliott R ^a,b   Grundfest, Warren S ^a   Lee, Hua ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Conformal arrays; Image reconstruction; Pulse echo; Range profiles; Step FMCW ultrasound

Indexed keywords

CIRCULAR APERTURE; CONFORMAL ARRAYS; DATA TYPE; IMAGE ACCURACY; IMAGE FORMATIONS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHM; IMAGING SIMULATION; MULTI-STATIC; PHYSICAL EFFECTS; PULSE ECHOES; PULSE-ECHO; RANGE PROFILES; STEP FMCW ULTRASOUND; STEP FREQUENCY; TARGET REGIONS; THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK; TRANSDUCER ARRAY; TRANSDUCER ELEMENTS; ULTRASOUND ARRAY IMAGING; ULTRASOUND IMAGING SYSTEMS; WAVEFORM SYNTHESIS;

ACOUSTIC WAVES; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS; RESTORATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; ULTRASONICS;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 67149140342     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.812206     Document Type: Conference Paper

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