Concise Encyclopedia of Materials Characterization, Second Edition
Subtitle: 2nd Edition (Advances in Materials Science and Engineering)
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Published: January 25, 2005
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1120
ISBN-13: 9780080445472
First sentence: In acoustic microscopy, magnified acoustic images of the elastic structure of the surface or interior of a solid are produced by passing high-frequency focused acoustic pulses through the material and displaying the received signals in image form as shades of gray.