Elliptical-Tukey chirp signal for high-resolution, air-coupled ultrasonic imaging

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 54, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1530-1540

  Pallav, Prakash ^b   Gan, Tat Hean ^b   Hutchins, David A ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BANDWIDTH; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TRANSDUCERS;

CHIRP SIGNAL; PULSECOMPRESSION ALGORITHMS;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 34548067340     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2007.423     Document Type: Article

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