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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 28, 2026
Filed:
Aug. 31, 2021
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN (US);
Emelina Prevost Vienneau, Walnut Cove, NC (US);
Brett C. Byram, Brentwood, TN (US);
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY, Nashville, TN (US);
Abstract
One aspect of the invention relates to method and system for increasing signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and suppressing range lobe artifacts in ultrasound imaging or sensing, active sonar, LIDAR, and/or radar. The method includes forming a coded excitation waveform with a chip waveform and a binary sequence; transmitting the coded excitation waveform into a medium of interest, and receiving signals generated from the medium of interest responsive to excitation of the coded excitation waveform; and performing pulse compression on the received signals using a decoding filter to increase the SNR and suppress the range lobe artifacts.