Design of frequency-invariant beamformers employing multi-dimensional Fourier transforms

Fourth International Workshop on Multidimensional Systems, NDS 2005

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 19-23

  Liu, Wei ^a   Weiss, Stephan ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOURIER TRANSFORMS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

BEAMFORMERS; BROADBAND ARRAYS; MULTI-DIMENSIONAL FOURIER TRANSFORMS;

SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

EID: 33749068423     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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