Piezo-polymer transducers for ultrasonic imaging in air

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 36-43

  Capineri, Lorenzo ^a   Fiorillo, Antonino S ^a   Masotti, Leonardo ^a   Rocchi, Santina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR; ALGORITHMS; BACKPROPAGATION; FLUORINE CONTAINING POLYMERS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PHASE MEASUREMENT; ROBOT APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

DIGITAL PHASE; ISOLATED SCATTERERS; PIEZOPOLYMER TRANSDUCERS; POLYVINYLIDENEFLUORIDE; ULTRASONIC SCANNER;

PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 0030781872     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/58.585188     Document Type: Article

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