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Seeing with Light, Sound, Microwaves, X-Rays, Gamma Rays, Etc.

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Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation

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It is common to regard humans as being able to see only with light, but about a hundred years ago at the beginning of the modern era, along came x-rays and sonograms. By now technology has made it possible for us to see in a great many different ways. Important views such as underground pools of oil, tumors in the brain, fine structure in the rings of Saturn, ship wreckage on the bottom of the ocean, cracks in the ice packs of the Arctic, all these views and many more, completely unperceivable one hundred years ago, are available to us now with our technology in astonishing clarity and detail.

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  1. E. E. Aldridge, A. B. Clare, D. A. Sheppard, “Ultrasonic Holography and Non-Destructive Testing,” in Acoustical Holography, Vol. 3, chap. 7, A. F. Metherell, Ed., New York: Plenum Press, 1971.

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  1. Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, USA

    Glen Wade

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  1. Center for NDE Ames Laboratory (USDOE) and Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics, Iowa State University, 50011, Ames, Iowa, USA

    Donald O. Thompson

  2. Center for NDE and Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University, 21218, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

    Dale E. Chimenti

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Wade, G. (1990). Seeing with Light, Sound, Microwaves, X-Rays, Gamma Rays, Etc.. In: Thompson, D.O., Chimenti, D.E. (eds) Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation. Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-5772-8_1

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