Investigation of cross talk in kerfless annular arrays for high-frequency imaging

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1046-1055

  Démoré, Christine E M ^a,b   Brown, Jeremy A ^b   Lockwood, Geoffrey R ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELEMENT PATH DIFFERENCE; KERFLESS ANNULAR ARRAYS;

ELECTRODES; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

CROSSTALK;

EID: 33744774165     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2006.1632694     Document Type: Article

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