Time-of-flight analysis

The program relies on the multiple frequency method to obtain the couplant-corrected wave travel times (Pantea et al. Rev. Sci. Instr. 2005, Sturtevant et al. Rev. Sci. Instr. 2020).

A cross-correlation procedure measures the optimal interference between a waveform and its copy with a varying phase shift. This process is used to calculate the time delay between any 2 pulses.

The difference between R1 & R2 reflection = double travel time

\(R2 - R1 = 2 τ\)