New demodulation method for efficient phase-rotation-based beamforming

In this paper, we present a new demodulation method to reduce hardware complexity in phase-rotation-based beamforming. Due to its low sensitivity to phase delay errors, quadrature demodulation, which consists of mixing and lowpass filtering, is commonly used in ultrasound machines. However, because...

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Veröffentlicht in:IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control. - 1986. - 54(2007), 8 vom: 13. Aug., Seite 1656-68
1. Verfasser: Agarwal, Anup (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Yoo, Yang Mo, Schneider, Fabio Kurt, Gao, Changqing, Koh, Liang Mong, Kim, Yongmin
Format: Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2007
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control
Schlagworte:Journal Article
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