Synthetic aperture flow imaging using a dual stage beamformer approach

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1924-1927

  Li, Ye ^a   Jensen, JØrgen Arendt ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AXIAL VELOCITY COMPONENT; BEAM FORMERS; BEAMFORM; DUAL STAGE; EMISSION LINES; FIELD II; FLOW ESTIMATION; FRAME RATE; GLOBAL EMISSIONS; LOW RESOLUTION; PARAMETER STUDIES; PEAK VELOCITIES; STANDARD DEVIATION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE FLOW; VELOCITY PROFILES;

ESTIMATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; STATISTICS; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; ULTRASONICS; VELOCITY; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

BEAMFORMING;

EID: 80054053565     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2010.5935586     Document Type: Conference Paper

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