Benefits of minimum-variance beamforming in medical ultrasound imaging

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 56, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1868-1879

  Synnevåg, Johan Fredrik ^a   Austeng, Andreas ^a   Holm, Sverre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEAMFORMING; ADAPTIVE METHODS; BEAM FORMERS; BEAM WIDTHS; DELAY AND SUMS; FRAME RATE; LATERAL RESOLUTION; LOW SIDELOBE LEVEL; MEDICAL ULTRASOUND IMAGING; MINIMUM VARIANCE; TRANSMITTED BEAMS;

ACOUSTIC WAVES; BEAMFORMING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RESOLUTION; MEDICAL IMAGING; PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONICS;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ECHOGRAPHY; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TRANSDUCER;

ALGORITHMS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 70350166194     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2009.1263     Document Type: Article

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