Noncontact thermoacoustic detection of targets embedded in dispersive media

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 9988, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Boyle, Kevin C ^a   Nan, Hao ^a   Khuri Yakub, Butrus T ^a   Arbabian, Amin ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducer; CMUT; detection; imaging; non contact; Thermoacoustic; ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ERROR DETECTION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; REMOTE SENSING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THERMOACOUSTICS; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONICS;

CAPACITIVE MICROMACHINED ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCER; CMUT; DETECTION PERFORMANCE; NON-CONTACT; POST-PROCESSING TECHNIQUES; REPEATED MEASUREMENTS; SIGNAL CHARACTERIZATION; THERMOACOUSTIC;

SIGNAL DETECTION;

EID: 85011051661     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.2241941     Document Type: Conference Paper

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