Synthetic Aperture Sequential Beamforming

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 966-969

  Kortbek, Jacob ^a   Jensen, Jørgen Arendt ^b   Gammelmark, Kim Løkke ^a  

^a BK Medical   (Denmark)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3D IMAGING; B-MODE IMAGES; BEAMFORMERS; FOCAL POINTS; FRAME RATE; IMAGE LINES; IN-FIELD; INPUT DATA; LATERAL RESOLUTION; NEAR FIELDS; OFF-LINE PROCESSING; RANGE-INDEPENDENT; STATIC IMAGES; SYNTHETIC APERTURE FOCUSING; TWO STAGE;

BEAMFORMING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

DATA PROCESSING;

EID: 67649376314     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2008.0233     Document Type: Conference Paper

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