Multielement synthetic transmit aperture imaging using temporal encoding

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 552-563

  Gammelmark, Kim Løkke ^a   Jensen, Jørgen Arendt ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Experimental ultrasound scanning system; Field II; Linear FM signals; Multielement defocusing; Synthetic transmit aperture ultrasound imaging

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FREQUENCY MODULATION; IMAGE QUALITY; MEDICAL IMAGING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

EXPERIMENTAL ULTRASOUND SCANNING SYSTEM; LINEAR FREQUENCY-MODULATED SIGNALS; MULTIELEMENT DEFOCUSING; MULTIELEMENT SYNTHETIC TRANSMIT APERTURE IMAGING; TEMPORAL ENCODING;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ABDOMEN; ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYST; ECHOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MOTION; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION SCATTERING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VALIDATION STUDY;

ABDOMEN; ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYSTS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTION; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 85047688862     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2003.809088     Document Type: Article

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