Beam pattern calculation for optimization of broadband array transducers

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 120, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 741-749

  Wang, Qiongbo ^a   Guo, Ningqun ^a   Du, Hejun ^a   Huang, Weimin ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARRAYS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; IMPULSE RESPONSE; OPTIMIZATION; PARTICLE BEAMS;

ARRAY ELEMENTS; BEAM PATTERNS; BROADBAND ARRAY TRANSDUCERS; SPATIAL IMPULSE RESPONSE;

TRANSDUCERS;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; IMAGE QUALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOCHASTIC MODEL; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER; WAVEFORM;

EID: 33747031444     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2214149     Document Type: Article

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