Weighting and thinning wide-band arrays by simulated annealing

Ultrasonics

Volumn 40, Issue 1-8, 2002, Pages 485-489

  Trucco, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Acoustic imaging; Array thinning; Beamforming systems; Stochastic optimization; Wide band arrays

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC IMAGING; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; SIMULATED ANNEALING;

ARRAY THINNING; BEAMFORMING SYSTEMS; WIDE-BAND ARRAYS;

ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 0036565949     PISSN: 0041624X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0041-624X(02)00163-4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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