Expanding-Aperture Annular Array

Ultrasonic Imaging

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1979, Pages 56-75

  Dietz, D R ^a,b   Parks, S I ^a   Linzer, M ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United States)

Author keywords

Annular array; dynamic focusing; ultrasonics

Indexed keywords

B SCAN; DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ULTRASONICS;

EID: 0018762539     PISSN: 01617346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/016173467900100105     Document Type: Article

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