Minimum variance ultrasonic imaging applied to an in situ sparse guided wave array

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 57, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2311-2323

  Hall, James S ^a   Michaels, Jennifer E ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DELAY AND SUMS; GUIDED WAVE ARRAYS; HIGH NOISE; IN-SITU; MINIMUM VARIANCE; MINIMUM VARIANCE DISTORTIONLESS RESPONSE; PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS; PERFORMANCE METRICES; PHASE INFORMATION; PIXEL LOCATION; QUANTITATIVE COMPARISON; SCATTERING INFORMATION; SIMULATED DATA; THROUGH HOLE; ULTRASONIC GUIDED WAVE; WEIGHTING COEFFICIENT;

GUIDED ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; IMAGE QUALITY; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONICS;

SCATTERING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHOGRAPHY; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; TRANSDUCER;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 77957715643     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2010.1692     Document Type: Conference Paper

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