Space-time image reconstruction algorithm for diverse ultrasound transducer element distributions

Proceedings - 2009 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro, ISBI 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 177-180

  Lee, Michael ^a,b   Singh, Rahul S ^a,c,e   Culjat, Martin O ^a,c,e   Natarajan, Shyam ^a,b   Cox, Brian P ^a,d   Brown, Elliott R ^a,e   Grundfest, Warren S ^a,d   Lee, Hua ^a,e  

^a Center for Advanced Surgical and Interventional Technology CASIT   (United States)

^b Biomedical Engineering IDP   (United States)

^c Department of Surgery ^*

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Element distribution; Image reconstruction; Step FMCW ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC ENERGY; APERTURE SIZES; ELEMENT DISTRIBUTION; HANDHELDS; IMAGE DATA; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHM; LINEAR PHASED ARRAYS; MEDICAL ULTRASOUND; OPERATING BANDWIDTH; PIEZOELECTRIC ELEMENTS; REFLECTED SIGNAL; SIMULATED IMAGES; STANDARD ARCHITECTURE; STEP FMCW ULTRASOUND; TRANSDUCER ARRAY; TRANSDUCER ELEMENTS; ULTRASOUND IMAGING SYSTEMS; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCERS;

ACOUSTIC WAVES; ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS; REPAIR; ULTRASONIC PROPAGATION; ULTRASONIC SCATTERING; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONICS;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 70449339920     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISBI.2009.5193012     Document Type: Conference Paper

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