A new method for grating lobe reduction for 3D synthetic aperture imagingwith ultrasound computer tomography

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 2372-2375

  Ruiter, N V ^a   Dapp, R ^a   Zapf, M ^a   Gemmeke, H ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

3-D ULTRASOUND; BREAST IMAGING; COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHS; FOCUSING TECHNIQUE; GRATING LOBES; IMAGE POINTS; MEDIAN FILTER; SPARSE APERTURE; TECHNICAL FEASIBILITY; ULTRASOUND COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE FOCUSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE FOCUSING TECHNIQUES; SYNTHETIC APERTURE IMAGING;

THREE DIMENSIONAL; TOMOGRAPHY; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONICS;

ULTRASONICS; SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

EID: 80054062059     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2010.5935752     Document Type: Conference Paper

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