On the stability of wideband beam patterns with respect to weighting and envelope fluctuations

Ultrasonics

Volumn 42, Issue 1-9, 2004, Pages 997-1003

  Curletto, Simone ^a   Parodi, Caterina ^b   Trucco, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b Esaote   (Italy)

Author keywords

Pulse envelope; Sensitivity fluctuations; Weighting window; Wideband beam pattern

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC IMAGING; ARRAYS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SIMULATED ANNEALING;

PULSE ENVELOPE; SENSITIVITY FLUCTUATIONS; WEIGHTING WINDOW; WIDEBAND BEAM PATTERN;

ULTRASONICS;

EID: 1642617164     PISSN: 0041624X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultras.2003.12.006     Document Type: Conference Paper

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