A stochastic approach for the apodization of very short arrays

Ultrasonics

Volumn 42, Issue 1-9, 2004, Pages 425-429

  Repetto, S ^a   Trucco, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Array apodization; Beam pattern optimization; Simulated annealing; Weighting window synthesis

Indexed keywords

LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; RANDOM PROCESSES; REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLES; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SIMULATED ANNEALING; TRANSDUCERS;

ARRAY APODIZATION; BEAM PATTERN OPTIMIZATION;

ARRAYS;

EID: 1642632782     PISSN: 0041624X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultras.2003.12.038     Document Type: Conference Paper

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