Producing bowtie limited diffraction beams with synthetic array experiment

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 893-900

  Lu, Jian Yu ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARRAYS; CERAMIC MATERIALS; COMPOSITE MATERIALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYDROPHONES; MEDICAL IMAGING; PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS; SCANNING; ULTRASONIC EQUIPMENT; VINYL RESINS;

BOWTIE LIMITED DIFFRACTION BEAMS; POLYVINYLIDENE FLUORIDE (PVDF); THIRD ORDER LEE NIKODEM PLATE EQUATIONS;

ULTRASONIC DIFFRACTION;

EID: 0030243506     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/58.535492     Document Type: Article

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