A novel nonlinear, continuous wavelet transform filter is developed to separate short-time and narrow-frequency components from a set of broadband echoes from a finite cylindrical shell. The components are caused by specific physical phenomena and are called wavepackets. Two wavepackets sometimes overlap in time and frequency, which makes wavepacket synthesis more difficult.

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