A high performance board for acquisition of 64-channel ultrasound RF data

IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, IUS

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 2067-2070

  Boni, E ^a   Cellai, A ^a   Ramalli, A ^a   Tortoli, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Open Ultrasound platform; Raw data acquisition; ULA OP; Ultrasound research systems

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED RESEARCHES; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; OPEN ULTRASOUND PLATFORM; RADIO-FREQUENCY DATUM; REAL-TIME OPERATION; RESEARCH SYSTEM; ULA-OP; ULTRASOUND TECHNIQUES;

ACOUSTICS;

ULTRASONICS;

EID: 84882362076     PISSN: 19485719     EISSN: 19485727     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2012.0517     Document Type: Conference Paper

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