Deaberration of incoherent wavefront distortion: An approach toward inverse filtering

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 575-589

  Zhu, Qing ^a   Steinberg, Bernard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; ULTRASONIC DIFFRACTION; WAVEFRONTS;

AMPLITUDE COMPRESSION; INVERSE FILTERING; TIME DELAY COMPENSATION;

ULTRASONIC DISTORTION;

EID: 0031143717     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/58.658309     Document Type: Article

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