Feasibility study of superharmonic imaging using chirps

Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics

Volumn 9, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Van Neer, Paul ^a   Danilouchkine, Mikhail G ^a   Matte, Guillaume ^a   Voormolen, Marco M ^a   Verweij, Martin D ^a   De Jong, Nico ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECHOGRAPHIC IMAGES; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FULLY PROGRAMMABLES; PHASED ARRAY PROBES; POINT-SPREAD FUNCTIONS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SUPERHARMONIC IMAGING; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 84878956308     PISSN: 1939800X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3430889     Document Type: Conference Paper

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