Ultrasonic wave speed measurement using the time-delay profile of rf-backscattered signals: Simulation and experimental results

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 1445-1453

  Pereira, Fernando R ^a   Machado, Jõo C ^b   Pereira, Wagner C A ^b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC TRANSDUCERS; BACKSCATTERING; HYDROPHONES; SPEED;

PULSED WAVES;

ULTRASONIC WAVES;

WATER;

ACOUSTICS;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CORRELATION FUNCTION; IN VITRO STUDY; MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SOUND; TRANSDUCER; ULTRASOUND; VELOCITY;

EID: 0036193399     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1445787     Document Type: Article

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