Total Focusing Methods (TFM)

Total Focusing Method is a reconstruction algorithm compatible with FMC data acquisition schemes (elementary FMC, sparse FMC, Plane Wave Imaging, Virtual Source Aperture…). They consist in focusing the energy at every pixels of a region of interest.

Sources

1. “Holmes, C., Drinkwater, B. W., Wilcox, P. D. (2005).
   Post-processing of the full matrix of ultrasonic transmit–receive array data for non-destructive evaluation.
   NDT & E International, 38(8), 701–711.”