A novel modulated excitation imaging system for microultrasound

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 60, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1884-1890

  Qiu, Weibao ^a   Yu, Yanyan ^b   Tsang, Fu Keung ^b   Zheng, Hairong ^a   Sun, Lei ^b  

^a SHENZHEN INSTITUTES OF ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Arbitrary waveform generator; field programmable gate array (FPGA); microultrasound (micro US); modulated excitation imaging; programmable and real time imaging

Indexed keywords

ARBITRARY WAVEFORM GENERATOR; EXCITATION METHODS; IMAGING RECEIVERS; IN-VIVO EXPERIMENTS; MICROULTRASOUND (MICRO-US); MODULATED EXCITATIONS; REALTIME IMAGING; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA); ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

IMAGING SYSTEMS;

ARTICLE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRONICS; HAND; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IN VIVO STUDY; MICROULTRASOUND; MODULATED EXCITATION IMAGING; PATTERN GENERATOR; PHANTOM; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; ULTRASOUND; WAVEFORM;

ALGORITHMS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY, ACOUSTIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 84879903337     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2013.2244887     Document Type: Article

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