Correlation length of ultrasonic speckle in anisotropic random media: Application to coherent echo detection

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 103, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 73-82

  Derode, Arnaud ^a   Fink, Mathias ^a  

^a INSTITUT LANGEVIN   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CORRELATION FUNCTION; ECHOGRAPHY; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND DETECTION; SOUND TRANSMISSION; ULTRASOUND; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER;

EID: 0031962787     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.421080     Document Type: Article

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