Synthetic aperture focusing for defect reconstruction in anisotropic media

Ultrasonics

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 125-131

  Spies, Martin ^a   Jager, Winfried ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anisotropy; Defect; Group velocity; Modeling; Transducer

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; TRANSDUCERS;

ANISOTROPIC MATERIALS;

ULTRASONICS;

EID: 0037360596     PISSN: 0041624X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0041-624X(02)00407-9     Document Type: Article

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