Ultrasonic imaging of human tooth using chirp-coded nonlinear time reversal acoustics

Physics Procedia

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 913-918

  Dos Santos, Serge ^a   Domenjoud, Mathieu ^b   Prevorovsky, Zdenek ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOURS   (France)

^b Université de Tours   (France)

^c INSTITUTE OF THERMOMECHANICS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Chip coded excitation; Echodentography; TR NEWS; Ultrasonic imaging

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

CODED EXCITATION; ECHODENTOGRAPHY; HUMAN TEETHS; TIME REVERSAL ACOUSTICS; TR-NEWS;

TOOTH ENAMEL;

EID: 77951529868     PISSN: 18753884     EISSN: 18753892     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.phpro.2010.01.117     Document Type: Conference Paper

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