Modeling of Ultrasound Speckle with Application in Flaw Detection in Metals

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 1992, Pages 624-632

  Cohen, Fernand S ^a  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING--APPLICATIONS;

GAUSSIAN MARKOV FIELDS; MULTIDIMENSIONAL SIGNAL PROCESSING;

METALS TESTING;

EID: 0026825970     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: 19410476     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/78.120805     Document Type: Article

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