A rapid signal processing technique to remove the effect of dispersion from guided wave signals

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 419-427

  Wilcox, Paul D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC EMISSION TESTING; ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; ULTRASONIC PROPAGATION; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

DISPERSION EFFECT; GUIDED ACOUSTIC WAVES;

GUIDED ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION SCATTERING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; QUALITY CONTROL; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 0038714255     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2003.1197965     Document Type: Article

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