Reconstruction of ultrasonic fields by deconvolving the hydrophone aperture effects - I. Theory and simulation

Ultrasonics

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 631-639

  Boutkedjirt, T ^a   Reibold, R ^a  

^a PHYSIKALISCH TECHNISCHE BUNDESANSTALT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Maximum a posteriori method; Power spectral equalization; Spatial averaging; Ultrasonic field reconstruction; Wiener filter

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYDROPHONES; SENSORS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ULTRASONIC FIELDS;

ULTRASONICS;

EID: 0036692914     PISSN: 0041624X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0041-624X(02)00346-3     Document Type: Article

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