Design of Ultrasonic Transducers with Multiple Acoustic Matching Layers for Medical Application

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 1987, Pages 8-16

  Inoue, Takeshi ^a   Ohta, Masaya ^a   Takahashi, Sadayuki ^a  

^a NEC CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ULTRASONICS - MEDICAL APPLICATIONS;

MULTIPLE ACOUSTIC MATCHING LAYERS; ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSTIC EQUIPMENT;

ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 0023104727     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/T-UFFC.1987.26905     Document Type: Article

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