Real-time volume imaging using a crossed electrode array

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1252-1261

  Démoré, Christine E M ^a   Joyce, Andrew ^b   Wall, Kieran ^b   Lockwood, Geoffrey ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2D-ARRAYS; COMPOSITE TRANSDUCERS; ELECTRODE ARRAYS; ELECTRODE PATTERN; IMAGE CONTRASTS; LARGE FIELD OF VIEWS; LINEAR ARRAYS; LINEAR PHASED ARRAYS; RADIATION PATTERNS; REAL-TIME FRAME RATES; ULTRASOUND IMAGING; VOLUME IMAGING;

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SYSTEM; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTRODE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRANSDUCER;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; ELECTRODES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 67651160681     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2009.1167     Document Type: Article

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