Camacho et al., 2015 - Google Patents
Auto-focused virtual source imaging with arbitrarily shaped interfacesCamacho et al., 2015
- Document ID
- 7490731213758931925
- Author
- Camacho J
- Cruza J
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- Publication venue
- IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control
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This work presents a new method, named autofocused virtual source imaging (AVSI), for synthetic aperture focusing through arbitrarily shaped interfaces with arrays. First, the shape of the component surface is obtained by timeof-flight (TOF) measurements. Then, a set of …
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