Coherent plane wave compounding for very high frame rate ultrasonography of rapidly moving targets

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1265-1276

  Denarie, Bastien ^a   Tangen, Thor Andreas ^a   Ekroll, Ingvild Kinn ^a   Rolim, Natale ^a   Torp, Hans ^a   Bjastad, Tore ^b   Lovstakken, Lasse ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b Ge Vingmed Ultrasound AS   (Norway)

Author keywords

Motion compensation; plane wave compounding; small animal applications; ultra fast imaging

Indexed keywords

COMPENSATION TECHNIQUES; HIGH FRAME RATE IMAGING; PLANE WAVE; SIGNALTONOISE RATIO (SNR); SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES; SMALL ANIMAL; TIMING CHARACTERISTICS; ULTRAFAST IMAGING;

ELASTIC WAVES; IMAGE QUALITY; MOTION COMPENSATION; PHYSIOLOGY; TISSUE; WAVE TRANSMISSION;

WAVE PROPAGATION;

ARTICLE; CARDIAC IMAGING; COHERENT PLANE WAVE COMPOUNDING; DEGRADATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; IMAGE QUALITY; IN VIVO STUDY; MOTION; NONHUMAN; RAT; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIMULATION;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MOVEMENT; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RATS; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO;

EID: 84880218662     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2013.2255310     Document Type: Article

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