Increasing the dynamic range of synthetic aperture vector flow imaging

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 9040, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Villagomez Hoyos, Carlos ^a   Stuart, Matthias Bo ^a   Jensen, Jørgen Arendt ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

high dynamic range; synthetic aperture; vector flow imaging

Indexed keywords

IMAGING SYSTEMS; LAMINAR FLOW; MEDICAL IMAGING; STATISTICS; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; TOMOGRAPHY; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; VECTORS; VELOCITY;

DETECTABLE VELOCITY; DIRECTIONAL BEAMFORMING; HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE; LINEAR ARRAY TRANSDUCERS; PULSE REPETITION FREQUENCIES; RELATIVE STANDARD DEVIATIONS; ULTRASOUND SCANNERS; VECTOR FLOW;

PULSE REPETITION RATE;

EID: 84901802688     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.2043637     Document Type: Conference Paper

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