Spatial coherence of backscatter for the nonlinearly produced second harmonic for specific transmit apodizations

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 576-588

  Fedewa, Russell J ^a,b   Wallace, Kirk D ^a   Holland, Mark R ^a   Jago, James R ^c   Ng, Gary C ^c   Rielly, Matthew R ^c   Robinson, Brent S ^c   Miller, James G ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^c PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABERRATION CORRECTION; APODIZATION; ULTRASONIC FIELDS;

ABERRATIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR CORRECTION; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; THEOREM PROVING; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC WAVES;

BACKSCATTERING;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; RADIATION SCATTERING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICS; VALIDATION STUDY;

ANIMALS; ARTIFACTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; STATISTICS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 84862364063     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2004.1302766     Document Type: Article

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