Comparison of fundamental, second harmonic, and superharmonic imaging: A simulation study

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 130, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 3148-3157

  Van Neer, Paul L M J ^a,e   Danilouchkine, Mikhail G ^a,f   Verweij, Martin D ^b   Demi, Libertario ^c   Voormolen, Marco M ^d   Van Der Steen, Anton F W ^a,f   De Jong, Nico ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Department of Microelectronics   (Netherlands)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^d NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^e TNO   (Netherlands)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AXIAL RESOLUTIONS; BEAM WIDTHS; DEPTH OF FIELD; FAR-FIELD; FORWARD PROPAGATION; FREQUENCY-DEPENDENT ATTENUATION; HARMONIC LEVELS; MEDICAL ULTRASOUND; NONLINEAR PROPAGATION; OPTIMAL TRANSMISSION; PULSE ECHOES; SECOND HARMONICS; SIMULATION STUDIES; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPECTRAL BAND; SUPER-HARMONIC; SUPERHARMONIC IMAGING; TISSUE HARMONIC IMAGING; TRANSMISSION FREQUENCIES;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FREQUENCY BANDS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RESOLUTION; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTIMIZATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TISSUE;

HARMONIC ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FOURIER ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PRESSURE; RADIATION SCATTERING; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME; ULTRASOUND;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FOURIER ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PRESSURE; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TIME FACTORS; ULTRASONICS;

EID: 81355133090     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3643815     Document Type: Article

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