Time-of-flight measurement of ultrasonic pulse echoes using wavelet networks

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 5-13

  Grimaldi, Domenico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Echo detection; Ultrasonic transducer; Wavelet networks

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); PULSE GENERATORS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TARGETS; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

ECHO DETECTION; TIME-OF-FLIGHT; ULTRASONIC PULSE; WAVELET NETWORKS;

DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 32044462271     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2005.862021     Document Type: Article

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