Noncontact, high-resolution ultrasonic imaging of wood samples using coded chirp waveforms

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 280-287

  Gan, Tat Hean ^a   Hutchins, David A ^a   Green, Roger J ^a   Andrews, Michael K ^b   Harris, Paul D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b CALLAGHAN INNOVATION   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; ELASTICITY; PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS; WOOD;

CODED CHIRP WAVEFORMS; POLYMER FILLER MATRIX; SWEPT FREQUENCY MULTIPLICATION (SFM); WOOD SAMPLES;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

DATA; ELASTICITY; PIEZOELECTRICITY; ULTRASONIC FREQUENCIES; WOOD;

EID: 15844396463     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2005.1406553     Document Type: Article

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