A novel imaging method of coded THI using multi chirp signals

IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, IUS

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 389-392

  Tanabe, Masayuki ^a   Yamamuray, Takuya ^b   Okuboy, Kan ^b   Tagaway, Norio ^b  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AXIAL RESOLUTIONS; CHIRP SIGNALS; CODED EXCITATION; CODED SIGNAL; CROSS CORRELATIONS; ECHO SIGNALS; FUNDAMENTAL COMPONENT; HARMONIC COMPONENTS; HIGH SNR; IMAGING METHOD; MEDICAL ULTRASOUND IMAGING; PULSE INVERSION; SIGNALTONOISE RATIO (SNR); SPECTRAL OVERLAP; TEMPORAL OVERLAP; TISSUE HARMONIC IMAGING; TISSUE MOTION; TRANSMITTED SIGNAL;

HARMONIC ANALYSIS; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 84869050473     PISSN: 19485719     EISSN: 19485727     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2011.0093     Document Type: Conference Paper

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