Beam Steering with Pulsed Two-Dimensional Transducer Arrays

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 1991, Pages 320-333

  Turnbull, Daniel H ^a,b   Foster, F Stuart ^a,b  

^a SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

APODIZATION EFFECTS; BEAM STEERING; ELEMENT CROSS-COUPLING; LINEAR ARRAY TRANSDUCERS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL TRANSDUCER ARRAYS; ULTRASONIC MEDICAL IMAGING;

ACOUSTIC IMAGING;

EID: 0026189516     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/58.84270     Document Type: Article

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