Synthetic aperture focusing of ultrasonic inspection data to enhance the probability of detection of defects in strongly attenuating materials

NDT and E International

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 425-431

  Spies, Martin ^a   Rieder, Hans ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR INDUSTRIAL MATHEMATICS ITWM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attenuation; Defect; Imaging; Probability of detection; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

AUSTENITIC; DEFECT DETECTION; DEFECT IMAGING; DETECTABILITY; DUPLEX STAINLESS STEEL; INDUSTRIAL FIELDS; MAIN TASKS; MICRO-STRUCTURAL; MIXED MICROSTRUCTURES; NOISE SIGNALS; PROBABILITY OF DETECTION; QUANTITATIVE NONDESTRUCTIVE EVALUATION; RF-DATA; SYNTHETIC APERTURE FOCUSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE FOCUSING TECHNIQUES; ULTRASONIC DATA; ULTRASONIC INSPECTIONS;

DEFECTS; FERRITIC STEEL; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INSPECTION; PROBABILITY; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; ULTRASONICS;

ULTRASONIC TESTING;

EID: 77955272129     PISSN: 09638695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ndteint.2010.04.002     Document Type: Article

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