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Lewandowski M., Klimonda Z., Karwat P., Sęklewski M., Nowicki A., Bassi L.♦, Tortoli P.♦, Comparison of different schemes of synthetic transmit aperture using an ultrasound advanced open platform (ULA-OP),
IUS 2010, IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, 2010-10-11/10-14, San Diego (US), DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2010.5935656, Vol.1, pp.1988-1991, 2010 Abstract:
Increasing efforts are currently dedicated to incorporate the Synthetic Transmit Aperture (STA) method in ultrasound imaging systems. The STA technique can provide a pixel-like focusing (dynamic focusing at both transmit and receive) without impairment of the frame rate. This goal can only be achieved by a careful design of the transmission and reception schemes. In this paper, the preliminary results of resolution, Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR) and Contrast to Noise Ratio (CNR) measurements for a specific SA scheme with different transmit apertures are presented. The measurements were made using a novel ultrasound advanced open platform (ULA-OP) developed at the University of Florence. The ULA-OP is fully programmable and enables access to the RF echo-data from each transducer element. Keywords:
synthetic aperture, ultrasound open platform Affiliations:
| Lewandowski M. | - | IPPT PAN | | Klimonda Z. | - | IPPT PAN | | Karwat P. | - | IPPT PAN | | Sęklewski M. | - | IPPT PAN | | Nowicki A. | - | IPPT PAN | | Bassi L. | - | other affiliation | | Tortoli P. | - | other affiliation |
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