Modeling of phased array transducers

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 117, Issue 4 I, 2005, Pages 1762-1776

  Ahmad, Rais ^a   Kundu, Tribikram ^a   Placko, Dominique ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC GENERATORS; ACOUSTIC WAVE SCATTERING; FLUID DYNAMICS; ULTRASONIC WAVES;

BEAM STEERING; MECHANICAL MOVEMENT; PHASED ARRAY TRANSDUCERS; WAVE GENERATORS;

ACOUSTIC TRANSDUCERS;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; LIQUID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESEARCH; TRANSDUCER; ULTRASOUND; WAVEFORM;

HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 17644426714     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1835506     Document Type: Article

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