Compressed beamforming in ultrasound imaging

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 60, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 4643-4657

  Wagner, Noam ^a   Eldar, Yonina C ^a   Friedman, Zvi ^a,b  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b GE HEALTHCARE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Array processing; beamforming; compressed sensing (CS); finite rate of innovation (FRI); ultrasound; Xampling

Indexed keywords

ARRAY PROCESSING; COMPRESSED SENSING; MACHINERY; SIGNAL SAMPLING; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONICS;

BIOLOGICAL TISSUES; CARDIAC ULTRASOUND; COMPRESSIVE SENSING; FINITE RATE OF INNOVATIONS; FINITE RATE OF INNOVATIONS (FRI); STATE-OF-THE-ART SYSTEM; TRANSDUCER ELEMENTS; XAMPLING;

BEAMFORMING;

EID: 84865217159     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2012.2200891     Document Type: Article

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