Coded excitation for ultrasound tissue harmonic imaging

Ultrasonics

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 613-619

  Song, Jaehee ^a   Kim, Sangwon ^a   Sohn, Hak yeol ^a   Song, Tai kyong ^a   Yoo, Yang Mo ^a  

^a Sogang University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Coded excitation; Peak range sidelobe level; Power modulation; Pulse compression; Pulse inversion; Tissue harmonic imaging

Indexed keywords

BAND PASS FILTERING; CODED EXCITATION; FREQUENCY BAND WIDTH; HARMONIC COMPONENTS; IN-VITRO; NONLINEAR PROPAGATION; POWER MODULATION; PULSE INVERSION; RANGE SIDELOBES; SIDE LOBES; SPECTRAL OVERLAP; TISSUE HARMONIC IMAGING; ULTRASOUND SIGNAL;

DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); HARMONIC ANALYSIS; LASER PRODUCED PLASMAS; MODULATION; PULSE COMPRESSION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; ULTRASONICS;

TISSUE;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 77949491457     PISSN: 0041624X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultras.2010.01.001     Document Type: Article

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