Bowtie Limited Diffraction Beams for Low-Sidelobe and Large Depth of Field Imaging

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 1995, Pages 1050-1063

  Lu, Jian Yu ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE TRANSMISSION; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

BOWTIE LIMITED DIFFRACTION BEAMS; FIELD DEPTH; RAYLEIGH SOMMERFELD DIFFRACTION FORMULA; SIDELOBES;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION;

EID: 0029406977     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/58.476549     Document Type: Article

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