A novel coded excitation scheme to improve spatial and contrast resolution of quantitative ultrasound imaging

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 56, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2111-2123

  Sanchez, Jose R ^a   Pocci, Darren ^b   Oelze, Michael L ^b  

^a BRADLEY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

A-CENTER; AXIAL RESOLUTIONS; BACKSCATTERED POWER; CODED EXCITATION; CONTRAST RESOLUTION; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; GLASS SPHERES; HISTOGRAM ANALYSIS; PARAMETRIC IMAGE; PULSE COMPRESSION TECHNIQUE; PULSING METHODS; QUANTITATIVE ULTRASOUNDS; RESOLUTION ENHANCEMENT; SINGLE ELEMENT TRANSDUCERS; SOFTWARE PHANTOM; STANDARD DEVIATION; TISSUE MIMICKING PHANTOM; ULTRASONIC BACKSCATTER;

ACOUSTIC WAVES; BANDWIDTH; BANDWIDTH COMPRESSION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; SCATTERING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; STANDARDS; STATISTICS; ULTRASONIC TESTING; 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: 72749095217     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2009.1294     Document Type: Article

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