Double-Stage Delay Multiply and Sum Beamforming Algorithm: Application to Linear-Array Photoacoustic Imaging
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering
سال: 2018
ISSN: 0018-9294,1558-2531
DOI: 10.1109/tbme.2017.2690959