Analysis of Homomorphic Processing for Ultrasonic Grain Signal Characterization

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 1989, Pages 365-375

  Saniie, Jafar ^a   Wang, Tao ^a   Bilgutay, Nihat M ^b  

^a ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATERIALS--GRAIN BOUNDARIES; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; ULTRASONIC WAVES--SCATTERING;

GRAIN BOUNDARY SCATTERING; HOMOMORPHIC PROCESSING; ULTRASONIC SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION;

EID: 0024665861     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/58.19177     Document Type: Article

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