Second harmonic imaging using synthetic aperture sequential beamforming

IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, IUS

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 2261-2264

  Du, Yigang ^a,b   Rasmussen, Joachim ^a   Jensen, Henrik ^b   Jensen, Jørgen Arendt ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b BK Medical   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

A-CENTER; AXIAL DIRECTION; AXIAL RESOLUTIONS; BEAMFORMATION; FOUR-WIRE; FULL WIDTHS AT HALF MAXIMUMS; IMAGE DEPTH; IMAGING ALGORITHM; LATERAL RESOLUTION; LINEAR ARRAY TRANSDUCERS; PULSE INVERSION; SECOND-HARMONIC IMAGING; SINE-WAVE; ULTRASOUND SYSTEM;

BEAMFORMING; WIRE;

SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

EID: 84869046676     PISSN: 19485719     EISSN: 19485727     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2011.0561     Document Type: Conference Paper

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