Wave-energy imaging technique
US3953822A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Oct 15, 1973 |
| Grant date | Apr 27, 1976 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Oct 15, 1993 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG01V3/12
- WIPO fieldMeasurement
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
A circumferential array of n transducers is used to image an object with resolution equal to that of an array over the entire bounded aperture. This is done by illuminating the object with m components of coherent wave energy, and coherently detecting the signal picked up by each of the n transducers for each of the m wave energy components to provide the coefficients of m complex numbers for each of the n transducers. Signal processing these coefficients, in the manner described in the disclosure, permits an image of the object to be displayed on a display device with resolution equal to that of an array filling the aperture.
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