Properties of the beampattern of weight- and layout-optimized sparse arrays

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 983-991

  Holm, Sverre ^a   Elgetun, Bjørnar ^a   Dahl, Geir ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

FAR FIELD CONTINUOUS WAVE BEAMPATTERN; SPARSE ARRAY OPTIMIZATION;

ACOUSTIC ARRAYS;

EID: 0031233539     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/58.655623     Document Type: Article

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