Dual-pulse frequency compounded superharmonic imaging

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 58, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2316-2324

  Van Neer, Paul L M J ^a   Danilouchkine, Mikhail G ^b   Matte, Guillaume M ^b   Van Der Steen, Anton F W ^b   De Jong, Nico ^b  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AXIAL RESOLUTIONS; CENTER FREQUENCY; DIAGNOSTIC ULTRASOUND; ECHOGRAPHIC IMAGES; FIFTH HARMONICS; FRAME RATE; FREQUENCY COMPOUNDING; GHOST REFLECTIONS; HARMONIC IMAGES; LIMITED BANDWIDTH; NEW MODALITY; NONLINEAR WAVE PROPAGATION; PHASED ARRAY TRANSDUCERS; PROGRAMMABLE ULTRASOUND SYSTEM; SECOND-HARMONIC IMAGING; SINGLE ELEMENT TRANSDUCERS; SINGLE-PULSE; SUPER-HARMONIC; SUPERHARMONIC IMAGING; SUPERHARMONICS; THIRD HARMONIC;

ACOUSTIC FIELDS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; OPTIMIZATION; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC EQUIPMENT; ULTRASONICS;

HARMONIC ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ELASTOGRAPHY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ALGORITHMS; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 81355147332     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2011.2089     Document Type: Article

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