Another possibility for controlling a beam or array of beams is linear scanning:

  • In this case if I have an array of many elements called a sub-array.
    As an example we excite only 5 out of 100 transducers.
  • Therefore it is like having a small probe in this area here which analyze the region in front of it.
  • Then I can move the active sensors region along the whole array.
    So I stop exciting the 1st and i excite the 6th.
    Then I stop exciting the 2nd and i excite the 7th.
  • So it’s like moving the probe down.

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