Minimum variance beamforming combined with adaptive coherence weighting applied to medical ultrasound imaging

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 56, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1923-1931

  Asl, Babak Mohammadzadeh ^a   Mahloojifar, Ali ^a  

^a TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEAMFORMERS; BEAM FORMERS; COHERENCE FACTORS; DELAY AND SUMS; EXCELLENT PERFORMANCE; IMAGING RESOLUTIONS; IN-PHASE; INHOMOGENEITIES; ITS DATA; LIMITED RESOLUTION; MEDICAL ULTRASOUND IMAGING; MINIMUM VARIANCE; OFF-AXIS SIGNALS; OUT OF PHASE; SIDE LOBES; SOUND VELOCITIES;

ACOUSTIC WAVES; BEAMFORMING; IMAGE QUALITY; MEDICAL IMAGING; MILITARY ELECTRONIC COUNTERMEASURES; SUPERALLOYS; ULTRASONICS;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHOGRAPHY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 70350144298     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2009.1268     Document Type: Article

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