The time-reversal operator with virtual transducers: Application to far-field aberration correction

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 124, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 3659-3668

  Robert, Jean Luc ^a   Fink, Mathias ^b  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

^b INSTITUT LANGEVIN   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABERRATION CORRECTIONS; FAR FIELDS; FOCUSED BEAMS; FOCUSING TECHNIQUES; NEAR FIELDS; PHASE SCREENS; SINGULAR VECTORS; TIME-REVERSAL OPERATORS; VIRTUAL ARRAYS;

ABERRATIONS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FUNCTIONS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROJECTION SCREENS; TRANSDUCERS;

GREEN'S FUNCTION;

ACOUSTICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOURIER ANALYSIS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; TIME FACTORS; TRANSDUCERS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 60049094133     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3005560     Document Type: Article

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