The thermal pulse decay technique for measuring ultrasonic absorption coefficients

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 1983, Pages 1356-1361

  Parker, Kevin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS - ACOUSTIC PROPERTIES; THERMAL EFFECTS;

ULTRASONIC WAVES;

EID: 0020847172     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: NA     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.390159     Document Type: Article

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