Multi-line transmission in medical imaging using the second-harmonic signal

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 60, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 2682-2692

  Prieur, Fabrice ^a   Dénarié, Bastien ^b   Austeng, Andreas ^a   Torp, Hans ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEDICAL ULTRASOUND IMAGING; NONLINEAR PROPAGATION; NUMBER OF TRANSMISSIONS; POINT SCATTERERS; SECOND-HARMONIC SIGNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRANSMISSION TECHNIQUES; TWO-DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

MEDICAL IMAGING; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

SIGNAL ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHOGRAPHY; HEART VENTRICLE; HUMAN; LETTER; METHODOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 84890396214     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2013.2868     Document Type: Article

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