Calculating the pulsed response of linear arrays: Accuracy versus computational efficiency

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 997-1009

  Crombie, Pinar ^a   Bascom, Peter A J ^a   Cobbold, Richard S C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; APPROXIMATION THEORY; CALCULATIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD THEORY; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

FRESNEL APPROXIMATIONS; LINEAR PHASED ARRAYS;

ACOUSTIC ARRAYS;

EID: 0031233780     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/58.655625     Document Type: Article

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