Beam pattern formulation and analysis for wide-band beamforming systems using sparse arrays

Signal Processing

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 177-183

  Murino, Vittorio ^a   Trucco, Andrea ^a   Tesei, Alessandra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Acoustic imaging; Sparse arrays; Wide band beamforming

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

BEAM PATTERN (BP) FORMULATION; WIDE BAND BEAMFORMING SYSTEMS;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 0030644108     PISSN: 01651684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0165-1684(96)00166-1     Document Type: Article

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