Sensitivity of Minimum variance beamforming to tissue aberrations

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1072-1075

  Austeng, Andreas ^a   Bjastad, Tore ^b   Synnevaag, Johan Fredrik ^a   Masoy, Svein Erik ^b   Trop, Hans ^b   Holm, Sveree ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAM FORMERS; DELAY AND SUMS; EDGE DEFINITION; HIGHER RESOLUTION; HUMAN BODIES; MEDICAL ULTRASOUND; MINIMUM VARIANCE; SUBAPERTURE;

ABERRATIONS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONICS;

BEAMFORMING;

EID: 67649364689     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2008.0258     Document Type: Conference Paper

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