High-resolution, air-coupled ultrasonic imaging of thin materials

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 50, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1516-1524

  Gan, Tat Hean ^a   Hutchins, David A ^a   Billson, Duncan R ^a   Schindel, David W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b MicroAcoustic Instruments Inc   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CAPACITANCE; FOCUSING; IMAGE QUALITY; MIRRORS; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

CAPACITANCE TRANSDUCER; PULSE COMPRESSION TECHNIQUES;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 0442326649     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2003.1251135     Document Type: Article

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