A sound field separation technique based on measurements with pressure-velocity probes (L).

It has recently been shown that statistically optimized near field acoustic holography based on measurement with an array of pressure-velocity transducers makes it possible to distinguish between sources on the two sides of the array and thus suppress the influence of a disturbing source [F. Jacobsen and V. Jaud, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 121, 1550-1558 (2007)]. However, the suggested technique uses a transfer matrix optimized for the source under test and may be expected to perform less well when the disturbing source is not placed symmetrically on the other side of the array, and this will usually be the case. In this letter, a modified method is presented.