A novel time-domain method of analysis of pulsed sine wave signals

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 809-814

  Ziarani, Alireza K ^a   Konrad, Adalbert ^b   Sinclair, Anthony N ^b  

^a Wallace H Coulter School of Engineering   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic acoustic transducers (EMATs); Noise elimination; Peak detection; Pulsed sine waves; Ultrasonic nondestructive evaluation (NDE)

Indexed keywords

NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC WAVES;

PULSED SINE WAVES;

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 0042092093     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2003.814688     Document Type: Article

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