Combined ultrasound technologies and optimized probe design for neck veins examination

Proceedings of the 9th IASTED International Conference on Biomedical Engineering, BioMed 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 252-259

  Forzoni, Leonardo ^a   D'Onofrio, Sara ^a   Farina, Massimiliano ^b   Semplici, Paolo ^a   Corsi, Massimo ^a   Furia, Roberto ^a   Rezzonico, Fabio ^c   Tortoli, Piero ^d  

^a Esaote   (Italy)

^b Policlinico di Monza   (Italy)

^c Rezzonico Design   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Multigate QDP; Neck veins; Spatial compound; Transducer design; Ultrasound image quality enhancement; Ultrasound imaging; Venous valves

Indexed keywords

MULTIGATE QDP; NECK VEINS; QUALITY ENHANCEMENT; SPATIAL COMPOUND; TRANSDUCER DESIGN; ULTRASOUND IMAGING;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; OPTIMIZATION; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONICS;

DESIGN;

EID: 84863655023     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2316/P.2012.764-144     Document Type: Conference Paper

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