A nonlinear propagation model-based phase calibration technique for membrane hydrophones

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 84-92

  Cooling, Martin P ^a   Humphrey, Victor F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS; NONLINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCY; KHOKHLOV-ZABOLOTSKAYA-KUZNETSOV (KZK); PHASE CALIBRATION;

HYDROPHONES;

WATER;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNITED KINGDOM;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GREAT BRITAIN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; WATER;

EID: 41649097380     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2008.619     Document Type: Article

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