Sources of image degradation in fundamental and harmonic ultrasound imaging using nonlinear, full-wave simulations

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 754-765

  Pinton, Gianmarco F ^a   Trahey, Gregg E ^a   Dahl, Jeremy J ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMIC PROCESS; ARTIFICIAL MEDIUM; ATTENUATING MEDIUM; BEAMFORMING ALGORITHMS; CONVENTIONAL IMAGING; DELAY AND SUMS; DIAGNOSTIC ULTRASOUND; FINITE DIFFERENCE; FULL-WAVE SIMULATIONS; IMAGE DEGRADATION; IMAGING CONFIGURATIONS; IMPEDANCE CHARACTERISTICS; IN-SILICO; NEAR-FIELD STRUCTURE; NON-LINEARITY; NONLINEAR PROPAGATION; PHASE ABERRATIONS; POINT-SPREAD FUNCTIONS; PRIMARY SOURCES; SCATTERING TISSUE; SPEED OF SOUNDS; TIME DOMAIN; ULTRASOUND IMAGES; ULTRASOUND IMAGING; ULTRASOUND SCANNERS;

ALGORITHMS; BEAMFORMING; CLUTTER (INFORMATION THEORY); DEGRADATION; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; REVERBERATION; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONICS;

OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; RADIATION SCATTERING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ULTRASOUND;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ULTRASONICS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 79955445949     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2011.1868     Document Type: Article

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