Noninvasive field measurement of low-frequency ultrasonic transducers operating in sealed vessels

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 53, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1749-1758

  Harvey, Gerald ^a,b   Gachagan, Anthony ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL PROCESSING; LASER INTERFEROMETRY; NONINVASIVE FIELD MEASUREMENT; SEALED VESSELS;

ACOUSTIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; ACOUSTOOPTICAL EFFECTS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INTERFEROMETRY; PROCESS ENGINEERING; TOMOGRAPHY;

ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSDUCER;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECIMEN HANDLING; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 33845678220     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2006.108     Document Type: Article

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