High Frame Rate Adaptive Imaging Using Coherence Factor Weighting and the MVDR Method

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1175-1178

  Wang, Shun Li ^a   Li, Pai Chi ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Coherent factor; High frame rate imaging ultrasound adaptive imaing; MVDR

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE IMAGING; ADAPTIVE WEIGHTING; ANGLE OF ARRIVAL ESTIMATION; ARRAY SYSTEMS; BREAST IMAGING; COHERENCE FACTORS; COHERENT FACTOR; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; HIGH FRAME RATE; HIGH FRAME RATE IMAGING ULTRASOUND ADAPTIVE IMAING; IMAGE PIXELS; INCOHERENT ENERGY; MINIMUM VARIANCE DISTORTIONLESS RESPONSE; MVDR; QUALITY INDICES; SIDE LOBES; SYNTHETIC TRANSMIT APERTURES;

ACOUSTIC WAVES; IMAGE QUALITY; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONICS;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 67649383635     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2008.0283     Document Type: Conference Paper

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