Convolutional modeling of diffraction effects in pulse-echo ultrasound imaging

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 128, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Mast, T Douglas ^a  

^a University of Cincinnati   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC EXPRESSIONS; BEAM FORMERS; CONTINUUM MEDIA; DIFFRACTED FIELD; DIFFRACTION EFFECTS; FOCAL ZONES; FOCUSED ARRAYS; FREQUENCY-DEPENDENT ATTENUATION; MULTIPLE TRANSMIT; NUMERICAL RESULTS; PULSE ECHO ULTRASOUND; PULSE ECHOES; RECEIVE MODE; REFLECTIVITY FUNCTIONS; SCAN IMAGES; SOUND SPEED; SPECKLE STATISTICS; SUB-APERTURES; ULTRASOUND ARRAYS;

CONVOLUTION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; ULTRASONICS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PRESSURE TRANSDUCER; STATISTICAL MODEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; TRANSDUCERS, PRESSURE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, PULSED;

EID: 77956411392     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3462233     Document Type: Article

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