Vibro-acoustography beam formation with reconfigurable arrays

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 59, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1421-1431

  Kamimura, Hermes A S ^a   Urban, Matthew W ^b   Carneiro, Antonio A O ^a   Fatemi, Mostafa ^b   Alizad, Azra ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR SPECTRUM METHOD; AZIMUTHAL PLANES; BEAM FORMATION; BEAM-STEERING; CHANNEL ASSIGNMENT; CLINICAL APPLICATION; CONTINUOUS WAVES; DIFFERENT FREQUENCY; FOCAL DISTANCES; FRESNEL APPROXIMATION; IMAGE FRAMES; NUMERICAL STUDIES; OPTIMAL SETTING; PARAMETRIC STUDY; POINT-SPREAD FUNCTION; RECONFIGURABLE ARRAY; RECTANGULAR SOURCE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; STEERING PARAMETERS; VIBROACOUSTOGRAPHY;

IMAGE RESOLUTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

TRANSDUCERS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84864188390     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2012.2343     Document Type: Article

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