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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 10, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 11, 2014
Baker Hughes Incorporated, Houston, TX (US);
James V. Leggett, Magnolia, TX (US);
Kamalesh Chatterjee, Spring, TX (US);
Roger R. Steinsiek, Houston, TX (US);
Vaibhav Sule, Houston, TX (US);
Jinsong Zhao, Houston, TX (US);
BAKER HUGHES INCORPORATED, Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
An apparatus for imaging a borehole wall includes an array of acoustic transducers and a controller. The controller scans a section of the borehole wall with first acoustic beams that are transmitted by a series of sets of acoustic transducers in the array to produce adjacent first acoustic measurements that are spaced a first distance Dapart along the borehole wall, each set having at least one transducer that is different from an adjacent set, (ii) steers a second acoustic beam along the section of the borehole wall using one set of acoustic transducers in the array to produce adjacent second acoustic measurements that are a second distance Dapart along the borehole wall, and (iii) images the borehole wall using the first acoustic measurements and the second acoustic measurement to generate a borehole wall image, wherein at least one second acoustic measurement is between adjacent first acoustic measurements.