Inspection of drinks cans using non-contact electromagnetic acoustic transducers

Journal of Food Engineering

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 431-444

  Ho, K S ^a   Billson, D R ^a   Hutchins, D A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic acoustic transducers; Foreign bodies; Mode extraction; Pulse compression; Tomographic reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC TRANSDUCERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TOMOGRAPHY;

ELECTROMAGNETIC ACOUSTIC TRANSDUCERS; FOREIGN BODIES; MODE EXTRACTION; PULSE COMPRESSION; TOMOGRAPHIC RECONSTRUCTION;

BEVERAGES;

EID: 33845309616     PISSN: 02608774     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfoodeng.2006.04.025     Document Type: Article

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