Nonlinear radio frequency image simulation for harmonic imaging: Creanuis

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 2179-2182

  Varray, Francois ^a,b   Cachard, Christian ^a   Tortoli, Piero ^b   Basset, Olivier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Nonlinear propagation; Radio Frequency Image; Simulation

Indexed keywords

ULTRASONICS;

HARMONIC IMAGING; LINEAR PROPAGATION; NONLINEAR PROPAGATION; RADIO FREQUENCIES; RADIO-FREQUENCY IMAGES; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; ULTRASOUND IMAGES;

RADIO WAVES;

EID: 80054066963     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2010.5935538     Document Type: Conference Paper

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