Improving the time-resolution and signal-to-noise ratio of ultrasonic NDE signals

Ultrasonics

Volumn 41, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 755-763

  Honarvar, Farhang ^a   Sheikhzadeh, Hamid ^b   Moles, Michael ^c   Sinclair, Anthony N ^d  

^a K N TOOSI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b Amir Kabir Univerisy ^*  (Iran)

^c R/D Tech   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Autoregressive spectral extrapolation; Signal processing; Ultrasonic testing; Wiener filtering

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; TRANSDUCERS;

AUTOREGRESSIVE SPECTRAL EXTRAPOLATION; WIENER FILTERING;

ULTRASONICS;

EID: 1342281371     PISSN: 0041624X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultras.2003.09.004     Document Type: Article

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