Preliminary comparison of 3D synthetic aperture imaging with explososcan

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 8320, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Rasmussen, Morten Fischer ^a   Hansen, Jens Munk ^a   F́erin, Guillaume ^b   Dufait, Ŕemi ^b   Jensen, Jørgen Arendt ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b Vermon SA ^*  (France)

Author keywords

Explososcan; Medical ultrasound; Synthetic aperture; Three dimensional imaging

Indexed keywords

A-FRAMES; DENSE MATRICES; EXPLOSOSCAN; FOCUS POINTS; GOLD STANDARDS; IMAGING QUALITY; MEDICAL ULTRASOUND; MEDICAL ULTRASOUND IMAGING; SCATTERING MEDIA; SYNTHETIC APERTURE IMAGING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE TECHNIQUES; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRANSMIT CHANNELS;

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 84860782829     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.913925     Document Type: Conference Paper

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