Acoustic Speckle: Theory and Experimental Analysis

Ultrasonic Imaging

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 1979, Pages 303-324

  Abbott, John G ^a   Thurstone, F L ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic; laser; phased array; speckle; ultrasound

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; THEORETICAL STUDY; ULTRASOUND;

LASERS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICS; ULTRASONICS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 0018633963     PISSN: 01617346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/016173467900100402     Document Type: Article

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