COMBINING PULSE-COMPRESSION AND ADAPTIVE DRIVE SIGNAL-DESIGN TO INVERSE FILTER THE TRANSDUCER SYSTEM RESPONSE AND IMPROVE RESOLUTION IN MEDICAL ULTRASOUND
S. Venkatraman et Nahk. Rao, COMBINING PULSE-COMPRESSION AND ADAPTIVE DRIVE SIGNAL-DESIGN TO INVERSE FILTER THE TRANSDUCER SYSTEM RESPONSE AND IMPROVE RESOLUTION IN MEDICAL ULTRASOUND, Medical & biological engineering & computing, 34(4), 1996, pp. 318-320
An adaptive inverse filtering technique has been incorporated into a m
edical ultrasound B-scan scheme that used a linear frequency modulated
pulse for imaging. Resolution improvement is demonstrated with imagin
g experiments on wire targets and tissue-mimicking phantoms.