On the shaping of the main lobe in wide-band arrays

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 619-630

  Curletto, Simone ^a   Trucco, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC TRANSDUCERS; ATTENUATION; BANDWIDTH; OPTIMIZATION; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; ULTRASONICS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

ANGULAR REGIONS; NARROW-BAND WINDOWS; PRESSURE LEVELS; WIDE-BAND ARRAYS;

ACOUSTIC ARRAYS;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSDUCER;

ACOUSTICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 19344372167     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2005.1428045     Document Type: Article

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