The invention relates to a method for ultrasonic inspection of an object wherein a multi-element ultrasonic probe comprising a plurality of basic transducers is applied to the object. The method comprises: consecutive activation of the basic transducers such that when activated each transducer emits an ultrasonic wave incident on said object, following each activation of a basic transducer, acquisition, by a plurality of basic transducers, of a detection signal representative of a wave reflected by the object during propagation of said ultrasonic wave in the latter. The object is divided into points referred to as mesh points. Each acquired detection signal is subsequently used to calculate, at each mesh point, a parameter representative of the object that is to reflect an incident ultrasonic wave. The method comprises, during this calculation, a selection of a group of transducers from among the basic transducers of the probe.
