Rocking convex array used for 3D synthetic aperture focusing

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 970-973

  Andresen, Henrik ^a,b   Nikolov, Svetoslav Ivanov ^b   Pedersen, Mads Moøller ^c   Buckton, Daniel ^d   Jensen, Joørgen Arendt ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b BK Medical   (Denmark)

^c Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^d GE Medical Systems   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1D ARRAYS; AUSTRIA; AZIMUTH PLANE; FIELD II; FOCUS POINTS; FURTHER DEVELOPMENT; IN-VIVO MEASUREMENT; ISOTROPIC POINTS; MECHANICAL MOTIONS; MULTI-ELEMENT; QUANTITATIVE MEASUREMENT; ROCKING MOTION; SIDE LOBES; SYNTHETIC APERTURE FOCUSING; TIME OF FLIGHT; VIRTUAL SOURCES; VOLUMETRIC IMAGING;

IMAGING SYSTEMS; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; SIMULATED ANNEALING; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; THREE DIMENSIONAL; WIRE;

FOCUSING;

EID: 67649347949     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2008.0234     Document Type: Conference Paper

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