Performance of laser-ultrasonic F-SAFT imaging

Ultrasonics

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1057-1063

  Lévesque, Daniel ^a   Blouin, A ^a   Neron C ^a   Monchalin, J P ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Angular spectrum approach; Deconvolution; Laser ultrasonics; Synthetic aperture focusing technique

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING; DEFECTS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; INTERPOLATION; LASER BEAM EFFECTS;

LASER ULTRASONICS;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 0036893882     PISSN: 0041624X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0041-624X(02)00256-1     Document Type: Article

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