High frequency, high frame rate pulse inversion chirp coded tissue harmonic imaging

IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, IUS

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 2253-2256

  Park, Jinhyoung ^a   Chen, Ruimin ^a   Zhou, Qifa ^a   Shung, K Kirk ^a  

^a University of Southern California   (United States)

Author keywords

Chirp coded tissue harmonic imaging; high frequency ultrasound; UBM

Indexed keywords

BAND PASS; CODED EXCITATION; ECHO SIGNALS; HIGH FRAME RATE; HIGH FREQUENCY; HIGH FREQUENCY ULTRASOUNDS; LIGHT WEIGHT; LITHIUM NIOBATE; MOTOR MOVEMENTS; PULSE INVERSION; PULSE PAIRS; SCANNING SPEED; SECOND-HARMONIC IMAGING; SIDELOBE LEVELS; SINGLE ELEMENT; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TIMING STRATEGY; TISSUE HARMONIC IMAGING; UBM;

BANDPASS FILTERS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; WIRE;

TISSUE;

EID: 84869016996     PISSN: 19485719     EISSN: 19485727     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2011.0559     Document Type: Conference Paper

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