Ultrasonic tomography using curved ray paths obtained by wave propagation simulations on a massively parallel computer

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 100, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 2103-2111

  Schechter, R S ^a   Mignogna, R B ^a   Delsanto, P P ^b  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOMOGRAPHY; ULTRASOUND;

EID: 0029836727     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.417920     Document Type: Article

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