Real-time ultrasound process tomography for two-phase flow imaging using a reduced number of transducers

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 492-501

  Yang, Ming ^a   Schlaberg, Hermann I ^a   Hoyle, Brian S ^b   Beck, Maurice S ^c   Lenn, Chris ^d  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d SCHLUMBERGER CAMBRIDGE RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING; TWO PHASE FLOW; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

MULTIPLE RECEIVER DATA ACQUISITION; NONLINEAR THRESHOLDING; ULTRASOUND TOMOGRAPHY IMAGING SYSTEM;

TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0032663122     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/58.764834     Document Type: Article

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