Adaptive beamforming for ultrasonic phased array focusing through layered structures

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1821-1824

  Shapoori, Kiyanoosh ^b   Sadler, Jeffrey ^a   Malyarenko, Eugene ^c   Severin, Fedar ^a   Boni, Enrico ^d   Ramalli, Alessandro ^d   Tortoli, Piero ^d   Maev, Roman Gr ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

^b Tessonics Inc   (Canada)

^c Tessonics Corp   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICAL PROPERTIES; ACTIVE ELEMENTS; ADAPTIVE BEAMFORMING; ADAPTIVE BEAMFORMING ALGORITHMS; BEAM PATTERN; BEAM PROFILES; DEFOCUSING; EXCITATION SIGNALS; EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; HOMOGENEOUS LAYERS; LAYERED STRUCTURES; LINEAR PHASED ARRAYS; LOCAL GEOMETRY; MULTILAYERED COMPOSITES; MULTIPLE REFLECTIONS; QUALITY DEGRADATION; RESOLUTION LOSS; TRANSMISSION MODE; ULTRASONIC FIELD; ULTRASONIC PHASED ARRAY; UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE;

ACOUSTIC WAVE SCATTERING; BEAMFORMING; IMAGE QUALITY; MATCHED FILTERS; NANOCOMPOSITE FILMS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONICS;

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS;

EID: 80054734946     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2010.5935595     Document Type: Conference Paper

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