Partial coherence of transient ultrasonic fields in anisotropic random media: Application to coherent echo detection

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 101, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 690-704

  Derode, Arnaud ^a   Fink, Mathias ^a  

^a INSTITUT LANGEVIN   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; TRANSDUCER; ULTRASOUND;

EID: 0031049481     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.417960     Document Type: Article

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