This paper proposes an efficient array beam-forming method using spatial matched filtering (SMF) for ultrasonic imaging. In the proposed method, ultrasonic waves are transmitted from an array subaperture with fixed transmit focus as in conventional array imaging. At receive, radio frequency echo signals from each receive channel are passed through a spatial matched filter that is constructed ba...

This paper proposes a hybrid hyperthermia treatment system, utilizing two noninvasive modalities for treating brain tumors. The proposed system depends on focusing electromagnetic (EM) and ultrasound (US) energies. The EM hyperthermia subsystem enhances energy localization by incorporating a multichannel wideband setting and coherent-phased-array technique. A genetic algorithm based optimizatio...

Phased array ultrasonic testing technology is of flexible, reliable, efficient and suitable for special equipment welds non-destructive testing. Sectorial scan angle range was investigated in this paper for phased array ultrasonic oblique incident pulse shear wave testing of special equipment welds made in low carbon steel. The theoretical calculation of ultrasound wave energy transmission coef...

High-density polyethylene (HDPE) piping has been used in place of steel alloys in the petrochemical, power, and mining industries due to its exceptional resistance to corrosion and erosion. Recently, HDPE has also been used for nuclear safety-related cooling water applications. The application of nuclear quality assurance requirements creates reasonable assurance that the production fusion join...

Stress corrosion cracks (SCC) in low-pressure steam turbine discs are serious hidden dangers to production safety in the power plants, and knowing the orientation and depth of the initial cracks is essential for the evaluation of the crack growth rate, propagation direction and working life of the turbine disc. In this paper, a method based on phased array ultrasonic transducer and artificial n...

A sonar array and a camera are the sensors of a robot that learns to move inside a building. Learning is based on the association of ultrasonic and visual images with motor commands. The two sensors extract diierent information from the environment. Sonars produce a short-range depth image on the sonar array plane, vision gives a wide-range at image of the space. In this work, a memory-based pr...

The importance of Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) to check the integrity of materials in different fields of industry has increased significantly in recent years. Actually, industry demands NDT methods that allow fast (preferably non-contact) detection and localization of early-stage defects with easy-to-interpret results, so that even a non-expert field worker can carry out the testing. The main...

A new ultrasonic phased array transducer to increase the imaging resolution of the borehole wall is presented for acoustical logging. We fabricate a cylindrical phased array which is made up of 128 piezoelectric elements distributed on the surface of a cylinder uniformly. The working frequency of each element is 0.5MHz. Through the switch array, different combinations of the elements can lead a...