Measurements of directional properties of reverberant sound fields in rooms using a spherical microphone array

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 116, Issue 4 I, 2004, Pages 2138-2148

  Gover, Bradford N ^a,b   Ryan, James G ^b,c   Stinson, Michael R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^c Gennum Corporation   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; ACOUSTIC WAVE ABSORPTION; ACOUSTIC WAVE REFLECTION; ACOUSTIC WAVES; IMPULSE RESPONSE; MICROPHONES;

SOUND ENERGY; SOUND VARIATION;

ACOUSTIC FIELDS;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; DIFFUSION; ENERGY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GEOMETRY; INFORMATION; MICROPHONE; OBSERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCIENCE; SOLID; SOUND; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 6344240432     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1787525     Document Type: Article

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