Petley et al., 1995 - Google Patents

Broadband ultrasonic attenuation: Are current measurement techniques inherently inaccurate?

Petley et al., 1995

Document ID
121598156623824698
Author
Petley G
Robins P
Aindow J
Publication year
Publication venue
The British Journal of Radiology

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Measurements of broadband ultrasonic attenuation (BUA) are currently made using large aperture, piezoelectric transducers. The use of such a receiver is known to lead to the possibility of an overestimate of ultrasonic attenuation due to phase cancellation and it is …
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