Steering of Limited diffraction beams with a two-dimensional array transducer

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn 1992-October, Issue , 1992, Pages 603-607

  Lu, Jian Yu ^a   Greenleaf, James F ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES;

ANNULAR ARRAY; ANNULAR RINGS; ARRAY ELEMENTS; DEPTH OF FIELD; DIFFRACTION BEAMS; ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS; MEDICAL ULTRASOUND; TWO-DIMENSIONAL ARRAYS;

DIFFRACTION;

EID: 3342977104     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.1992.275929     Document Type: Conference Paper

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