An ultrasonic time-delay spectrometry system employing digital processing

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1036-1044

  Gammell, Paul M ^a,b   Maruvada, Subha ^c   Harris, Gerald R ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b Gammell Applied Technologies LLC   (United States)

^c CENTER FOR DEVICES AND RADIOLOGICAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STRAIGHTFORWARD SIGNAL PROCESSING; ULTRASONIC TIME-DELAY SPECTROMETRY SYSTEM; WAVEFORM DIGITIZER;

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; CALIBRATION; HYDROPHONES; TIME DELAY; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

ULTRASONIC DELAY LINES;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPECTROSCOPY;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 34250178805     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2007.349     Document Type: Article

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