Superharmonic imaging based on chirps

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 2195-2198

  Danilouchkine, M G ^a,b   Van Neer, P L M J ^a   Matte, G M ^a   Voormolen, M M ^c   Verweij, M D ^d   De Jong, N ^a,b,e  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^d Department of Microelectronics   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Chirp; Point Spread Function; Superharmonic; Tissue Harmonic Imaging

Indexed keywords

A-CENTER; AXIAL BEAM; BEAM WIDTHS; BIOLOGICAL TISSUES; CHIRP; CHIRP SIGNALS; EXCITATION PULSE; FOCAL PLANE; FRAME RATE; FREQUENCY COMPOUNDING; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; GAUSSIANS; HARMONIC IMAGES; IMAGING PULSE; IN-VITRO; LINEAR CHIRP; MEDICAL ULTRASOUND; NEW MODALITY; PHASED ARRAY TRANSDUCERS; POINT-SPREAD FUNCTION; RADIO FREQUENCIES; RECTANGULAR APERTURE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SUPERHARMONIC; SUPERHARMONIC IMAGING; TISSUE HARMONIC IMAGING; ULTRASOUND SYSTEM;

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS; DECODING; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; GAUSSIAN BEAMS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; TISSUE; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONICS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 80054083319     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2010.5935886     Document Type: Conference Paper

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