A new frequency compounding technique for super harmonic imaging

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 357-360

  Mattel, G M ^a,b   Van Neer, P L M J ^a,b   Borsboom, J M G ^a   Verweij, M D ^c   De Jong, N ^a,b,d  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Frequency compounding; Super harmonic; Two pulses

Indexed keywords

AXIAL RESOLUTIONS; BANDWIDTH REQUIREMENT; CONTRAST-TO-TISSUE RATIO; DE FACTO STANDARD; FIFTH HARMONICS; FREQUENCY COMPOUNDING; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; MULTIPLE FREQUENCY; PHASED ARRAY ELEMENTS; PHASED ARRAY TRANSDUCERS; PROPAGATION OF SOUNDS; PULSE TECHNIQUE; RIPPLE ARTIFACT; SECOND-HARMONIC IMAGING; SUPER HARMONIC; TWO PULSES;

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS; IMAGE QUALITY;

HARMONIC ANALYSIS;

EID: 67649347714     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2008.0088     Document Type: Conference Paper

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