Focusing in transmit-receive mode through inhomogeneous media: The time reversal matched filter approach

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 98, Issue 2, 1995, Pages 1155-1162

  Dorme, Christian ^a   Fink, Mathias ^b  

^a Université Paris Vll/ESPCI ^*

^b INSTITUT LANGEVIN   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; FILTER; IMAGING; MODULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND TRANSMISSION; ULTRASOUND; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER;

EID: 0029083347     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.413614     Document Type: Article

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