The wavenumber algorithm for full-matrix imaging using an ultrasonic array

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 55, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 2450-2462

  Hunter, Alan J ^a   Drinkwater, Bruce W ^a   Wilcox, Paul D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC IMAGING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; RADAR; RADAR IMAGING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONIC TESTING; ULTRASONICS; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

COMPUTATIONAL PERFORMANCES; DO-MAINS; DOMAIN APPROACHES; EXPERIMENTAL DATUMS; FORWARD WAVE PROPAGATIONS; FOURIER; IMAGING GEOMETRIES; LARGE ARRAYS; LINEAR ARRAYS; NEW ALGORITHMS; NON-DESTRUCTIVE EVALUATIONS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDES; SPREAD FUNCTIONS; ULTRASONIC ARRAYS; WAVE NUMBERS;

HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSDUCER;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 44349159362     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.952     Document Type: Article

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