Parallel transmit beamforming using orthogonal frequency division multiplexing applied to harmonic Imaging-A feasibility study

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 59, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 2439-2447

  Demi, Libertario ^a   Verweij, Martin ^a   Van Dongen, Koen W A ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3-D ULTRASOUND; ACOUSTIC PRESSURES; BEAM PROFILES; CENTER FREQUENCY; EXPERIMENTAL VERIFICATION; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; GAUSSIANS; HARMONIC COMPONENTS; HARMONIC IMAGING; LINEAR ARRAYS; MAIN BEAMS; PARALLEL BEAMFORMING; PARALLEL BEAMS; PRESSURE WAVES; SECOND-HARMONIC; SIDE LOBES; SPATIAL DECAY; TRANSMIT BEAMFORMING; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCERS;

BEAMFORMING; DIAGNOSIS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL METHODS; ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

GAUSSIAN BEAMS;

WATER;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT; FEASIBILITY STUDY; METHODOLOGY; PRESSURE; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSDUCER;

ACOUSTICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PRESSURE; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; WATER;

EID: 84869427241     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2012.2476     Document Type: Article

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