Multi-transmit beam forming for fast cardiac imaging-experimental validation and in vivo application

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1205-1219

  Tong, Ling ^a   Ramalli, Alessandro ^b   Jasaityte, Ruta ^a   Tortoli, Piero ^b   D'Hooge, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cardiac imaging; High frame rate; Multi line transmit beam forming

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; IMAGE RESOLUTION; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

CARDIAC IMAGING; CARDIAC ULTRASOUND; HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS; HIGH FRAME RATE; OPEN PLATFORMS; SIGNALTONOISE RATIO (SNR); SPATIAL RESOLUTION; ULTRASOUND IMAGING;

HEART;

ARTICLE; CARDIAC IMAGING; CARDIAC MULTI LINE TRANSMIT IMAGING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART CYCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING PHANTOM; IMAGING SYSTEM; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NORMAL HUMAN; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIMULATION; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER; VALIDATION STUDY; DEVICES; IMAGE PROCESSING; PROCEDURES;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO;

EID: 84901917727     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: 1558254X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2014.2302312     Document Type: Article

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