Beam steering with segmented annular arrays

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 53, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1944-1954

  Ullate, Luis G ^a   Godoy, Gregorio ^b   Martínez, Oscar ^a   Sánchez, Teresa ^a  

^a Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JAÉN   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; IMAGE PROCESSING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; STEERING; VOLUMETRIC ANALYSIS;

ANNULAR ARRAY; BEAMFORMING PROPERTIES; GRATING LOBES; SEGMENTED ANNULAR PHASED ARRAYS;

ACOUSTIC ARRAYS;

EID: 33845678210     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2006.127     Document Type: Article

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