A New Algorithm to Calculate the Transient Near-Field of Ultrasonic Phased Arrays

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 1992, Pages 745-753

  Ullate, Luis G ^a   San Emeterio, José L ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE AUTOMÁTICA INDUSTRIAL   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE ACÚSTICA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC ARRAYS; ALGORITHMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC TRANSMISSION;

CLINICAL IMAGING; ULTRASONIC PHASED ARRAYS; ULTRASONIC SCANNERS; ULTRASOUND IMAGING;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 0026945777     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/58.165560     Document Type: Article

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