Bubble acoustics: What can we learn from cetaceans about contrast enhancement?

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn 2, Issue , 2005, Pages 964-973

  Leighton, T G ^a   Finfer, D C ^a   White, P R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bubbles; Cetaceans; Contrast agents; Sonar; Target

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; SIGNAL DETECTION; SONAR; ULTRASONICS;

BUBBLY OCEAN WATER; CETACEANS; CONTRAST AGENTS;

MAGNETIC BUBBLES;

EID: 33847172258     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2005.1603011     Document Type: Conference Paper

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