Sequential beamforming for synthetic aperture imaging

Ultrasonics

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-16

  Kortbek, Jacob ^a,b   Jensen, Jorgen Arendt ^b   Gammelmark, Kim Lokke ^a  

^a BK Medical   (Denmark)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Beamforming; Synthetic aperture; Ultrasound imaging

Indexed keywords

AXIAL RESOLUTIONS; B-MODE IMAGES; BEAMFORMERS; DELAY AND SUM BEAMFORMING; FOCAL POINTS; GRATING LOBES; IMAGE LINES; IN-FIELD; INPUT DATAS; LATERAL RESOLUTION; LINEAR ARRAYS; NOVEL TECHNIQUES; OFF-LINE PROCESSING; RANGE-INDEPENDENT; RF-DATA; SYNTHETIC APERTURE IMAGING; ULTRASOUND IMAGING; VIRTUAL ARRAY; VIRTUAL SOURCES;

SYNTHETIC APERTURES; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

BEAMFORMING;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHOGRAPHY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TRANSDUCER;

ARTIFACTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84869124697     PISSN: 0041624X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultras.2012.06.006     Document Type: Review

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