Dual pulse frequency compounded super harmonic imaging for phased array transducers

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 381-384

  Van Neer, P L M J ^a,b   Danilouchkine, M G ^a,b   Matte, G M ^a,b   Verweij, M D ^c   De Jong, N ^a,b,d  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Dual pulse; Frequency compounding; Phased array transducer; Super harmonic imaging

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; BANDWIDTH; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONIC EQUIPMENT;

BANDWIDTH REQUIREMENT; DUAL-PULSES; FREQUENCY COMPOUNDING; IMAGING CHARACTERISTICS; PHASED ARRAY TRANSDUCERS; SECOND-HARMONIC IMAGING; SUPER-HARMONIC; TRANSMISSION FREQUENCIES;

HARMONIC ANALYSIS;

EID: 77952821174     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2009.5441878     Document Type: Conference Paper

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