Pulsed Response of Focused Arrays in Echographic B-Mode Systems

IEEE Transactions on Sonics and Ultrasonics

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 1985, Pages 850-860

  Jacovitti, Giovanni ^a   Neri, Alessandro ^b   Scarano, Gaetano ^c  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b Contraves Italiana SpA ^*  (Italy)

^c CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC IMAGING - MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ACOUSTIC TRANSDUCER ARRAYS; TRANSIENT RESPONSE; ULTRASOUND ECHOGRAPHY;

ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 0022152569     PISSN: 00189537     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/T-SU.1985.31676     Document Type: Article

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