METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPROVING SIDELOBE PERFORMANCE OF SPARSE ARRAY USING HARMONIC IMAGING
Patent №
US 6,014,897
Granted
2000-01-18
Filed 1998
Owner
GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
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AIPD
2023_r1 edition
Application
09145533
A method and an apparatus for enhancing the side-lobe performance of a sparse ultrasonic transducer array using harmonic imaging to reduce all beam sidelobe (including grating lobe) levels. Harmonic imaging consists of using the active transducer elements to transmit an ultrasound signal (wideband or narrowband) of center frequency f.sub.0 and receive at one or more harmonic frequencies nf.sub.0, where n.gtoreq.2.
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GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
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MO, LARRY Y.L.
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