Nonuniform Phase Distribution in Ultrasound Speckle Analysis—Part II: Parametric Expression and a Frequency Sweeping Technique to Measure Mean Scatterer Spacing

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 1992, Pages 360-365

  Weng, Li ^a   Reid, John M ^a   Shankar, P M ^a   Soetanto, Kawan ^a   Lu, Xuan Ming ^a  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC IMAGING; LIGHT--SPECKLE; ULTRASONIC WAVES--SCATTERING;

FREQUENCY SWEEPING; MEAN SCATTERER SPACING; ULTRASOUND SPECKLE ANALYSIS;

ULTRASONICS;

EID: 0026866522     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/58.143170     Document Type: Article

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