Eigenspace-based minimum variance beamforming applied to medical ultrasound imaging

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 57, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 2381-2390

  Asl, Babak Mohammadzadeh ^a   Mahloojifar, Ali ^a  

^a TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEAMFORMERS; ADAPTIVE BEAMFORMING; ADAPTIVE DELAY; BEAM FORMERS; EIGEN-STRUCTURE; EIGENSPACES; HIGH RESOLUTION; IMAGING RESOLUTIONS; MEDICAL ULTRASOUND IMAGING; MINIMUM VARIANCE; SIDE LOBES; STEERING VECTOR ERRORS; ULTRASOUND IMAGING; VECTOR SUBSPACE; WEIGHT VECTOR;

COVARIANCE MATRIX; IMAGE QUALITY; MEDICAL IMAGING; ULTRASONICS; VECTORS;

BEAMFORMING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CYST; ECHOGRAPHY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; CYSTS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 78149236522     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2010.1706     Document Type: Article

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