Comparison of different schemes of synthetic transmit aperture using an ultrasound advanced open platform (ULA-OP)

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1988-1991

  Lewandowski, Marcin ^a   Klimonda, Ziemowit ^a   Karwat, Piotr ^a   Seklewski, Michal ^a   Nowicki, Andrzej ^a   Bassi, Luca ^b   Tortoli, Piero ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

synthetic aperture; ultrasound open platform

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; DYNAMIC FOCUSING; FRAME RATE; SYNTHETIC TRANSMIT APERTURES; TRANSDUCER ELEMENTS; ULTRASOUND IMAGING SYSTEMS; UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE;

IMAGING SYSTEMS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ULTRASONICS;

EID: 80054761040     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2010.5935656     Document Type: Conference Paper

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