A Study of Two-Dimensional Array Transducers for Limited Diffraction Beams

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 1994, Pages 724-739

  Lu, Jian Yu ^a   Greenleaf, James F ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC ARRAYS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; DIFFRACTION; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; DISTORTION (WAVES); MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; MEDICAL IMAGING;

BESSEL BEAMS; LIMITED DIFFRACTION BEAMS; TWO DIMENSIONAL ARRAY TRANSDUCERS; X WAVES;

ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 0028500325     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/58.308509     Document Type: Article

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