Preliminary in-vivo evaluation of synthetic aperture sequential beamformation using a multielement convex array

IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, IUS

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1131-1134

  Hemmsen, Martin Christian ^a,b   Møller Hansen, Peter ^c   Lange, Theis ^d   Hansen, Jens Munk ^a   Nikolov, Svetoslav Ivanov ^b   Nielsen, Michael Bachmann ^c   Jensen, Jørgen Arendt ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b BK Medical   (Denmark)

^c Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL IMAGING; ANATOMICAL LOCATIONS; ARRAY TRANSDUCERS; BEAMFORMATION; CONVENTIONAL IMAGING; DYNAMIC FOCUSING; FOCAL DEPTH; FRAME RATE; IMAGE SEQUENCE; IN-VIVO; LATERAL RESOLUTION; MEDICAL DOCTORS; MOTION ARTIFACT; MULTI-ELEMENT; RADIO-FREQUENCY DATUM; RANGE-INDEPENDENT; REAL TIME; RF DATA; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SUB-APERTURES; ULTRASOUND IMAGING; ULTRASOUND SCANNERS;

FLUORINE; IMAGE QUALITY; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

EID: 84869074597     PISSN: 19485719     EISSN: 19485727     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2011.0278     Document Type: Conference Paper

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