A low complexity data-dependent

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1084-1087

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE METHODS; APODIZATION FUNCTION; BEAM FORMERS; CLASSICAL PROBLEMS; LINEAR COMPLEXITY; LOW COMPLEXITY; MAINLOBE WIDTH; MEDICAL ULTRASOUND IMAGING; MINIMUM VARIANCE; SIDELOBE LEVELS;

BEAMFORMING; COMMERCE; IMAGE RESOLUTION; MEDICAL IMAGING; ULTRASONICS;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 67649364433     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2008.0261     Document Type: Conference Paper

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