SARUS: A synthetic aperture real-time ultrasound system

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 60, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1838-1852

  Jensen, Jorgen Arendt ^a   Holten Lund, Hans ^b   Nilsson, Ronnie Thorup ^b   Hansen, Martin ^b   Larsen, Ulrik Darling ^b   Domsten, Rune Petter ^b   Tomov, Borislav Gueorguiev ^a   Stuart, Matthias Bo ^a   Nikolov, Svetoslav Ivanov ^c   Pihl, Michael Johannes ^a   Du, Yigang ^a   Rasmussen, Joachim Hee ^a   Rasmussen, Morten Fischer ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b Prevas A S   (Denmark)

^c BK Medical   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX SAMPLES; ETHERNET INTERFACE; FLOW ESTIMATION; HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGE; RESEARCH PURPOSE; THEORETICAL RATES; TRANSDUCER ELEMENTS; ULTRASOUND SYSTEM;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA); RANDOM ACCESS STORAGE; ULTRASONIC EQUIPMENT;

SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SYSTEM; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 84883822728     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2013.2770     Document Type: Article

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