Broadband minimum variance beamforming for ultrasound imaging
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عنوان ژورنال: IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0885-3010
DOI: 10.1109/tuffc.2009.1040