Optimization of broadband transducer designs by use of statistical design of experiments

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 63-70

  McKeighen, Ronald E ^a  

^a Acoustic Imaging Transducers Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; APPROXIMATION THEORY; BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL PROCESS CONTROL;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BROADBAND TRANSDUCER; COMPUTER SEARCH ROUTINES; IMPULSE RESPONSE; STATISTICAL DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS;

ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 0029735256     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/58.484464     Document Type: Article

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