Synthetic Aperture Ultrasound Imaging

Synthetic Aperture Tissue and Flow Ultrasound Imaging

My Ph.D. dissertation from 2001 (in PDF format):

Contents
Abstract
Acknowledgment
Preface
Nomenclature
List of figures and tables

1 – Introduction
2 – Ultrasonic Imaging
3 – Foundations of Acoustics

4 – Generic synthetic aperture ultrasound imaging
5 – Variations of SAU
6 – Recursive Ultrasound Imaging
7 – Virtual Ultrasound Sources
8 – Sparse Synthetic Transmit Aperture
9 – Coded Excitations

10 – Velocity Estimation Using Cross Correlation
11 – Effects of Motion
12 – Motion Compensation
13 – Velocity estimation using Recursive Ultrasound Imaging
14 – Conclusion

A-Fresnel Diffraction between Confocal Spherical Surfaces
B-I – Papers
J -Description of the XTRA system
Bibliography

Synthetic Aperture Tissue and Flow Ultrasound Imaging (Full document)