High-frame-rate echocardiography with reduced sidelobe level

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 59, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 2569-2575

  Hasegawa, Hideyuki ^a   Kanai, Hiroshi ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

B-MODE IMAGES; CONVENTIONAL METHODS; FRAME RATE; FULL-FIELD; HEART FUNCTION; HEART VALVES; HEART WALL; HIGH FRAME RATE; IN-VIVO MEASUREMENT; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; MYOCARDIAL FUNCTION; MYOCARDIAL STRAIN; PHASE COHERENCE; RECEIVE BEAMFORMING; SIDELOBE LEVELS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPECKLE PATTERNS; ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSTICS;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FUNCTION EVALUATION; SPECKLE; STRAIN RATE;

HEART;

ADULT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; LETTER; MALE; METHODOLOGY;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84869464796     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2012.2490     Document Type: Review

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