A New Approach to Obtain Limited Diffraction Beams

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 1995, Pages 850-853

  Lu, Jian yu ^a   Greenleaf, James F ^a   Zou, Hehong ^b  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b Rosemount Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEDICAL IMAGING; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS;

LIMITED DIFFRACTION BEAMS;

ACOUSTIC WAVE DIFFRACTION;

EID: 0029375729     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/58.464842     Document Type: Article

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