Design of wide-band arrays for low side-lobe level beam patterns by simulated annealing

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 49, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 1050-1059

  Cardone, Giovanni ^b   Cincotti, Gabriella ^a,c   Pappalardo, Massimo ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b CENTER FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Italy)

^c ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BANDWIDTH; FREQUENCIES; SIMULATED ANNEALING; ULTRASONIC TRANSMISSION;

BEAM PATTERNS;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 0036693675     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2002.1026017     Document Type: Article

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