Study of lift-off invariance for pulsed eddy-current signals

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 184-191

  Tian, Gui Yun ^a   Li, Yong ^a   Mandache, Catalin ^b  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Inverse process; Lift off; Lift off compensation; Lift off invariance; Normalization; Pulsed eddy current

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; HALL EFFECT TRANSDUCERS; PROBES;

INVERSE PROCESS; LIFT OFFS; LIFT-OFF COMPENSATION; LIFT-OFF INVARIANCE; NORMALIZATION; PULSED EDDY CURRENT;

EDDY CURRENT TESTING;

EID: 59849120371     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2008.2006246     Document Type: Article

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