A multiple-frequency hydrophone calibration technique

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 87, Issue 5, 1990, Pages 2231-2243

  Smith, Robert A ^a   Bacon, David R ^a  

^a NATIONAL PHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; THEORETICAL STUDY; ULTRASOUND; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER;

ACOUSTICS; CALIBRATION; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MODELS, ANATOMIC; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 0025328930     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: NA     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.399191     Document Type: Article

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