In vivo and in vitro ultrasound beam distortion measurements of a large aperture and a conventional aperture focussed transducer

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 1988, Pages 415-428

  Moshfeghi, Mehran ^a   Waag, R C ^b  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustics; Aperture size; Attenuation; Beam distortion; Beam pattern; Beamwidth; Breast tissue; f number; Focal depth; Focussed disc transducer; Frequency bandwidth; Image quality; Inhomogeneities; Liver tissue; Resolution; Sidelobe levels; Ultrasonic focussing; Ultrasound beam; Ultrasound velocity; Wavefront distortion

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; APERTURE; BEAM THERAPY; BREAST; CATTLE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LIVER; MALE; METHODOLOGY; TRANSDUCER;

ANIMAL; BREAST; CATTLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PRESSURE; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONICS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; WATER;

EID: 0023907477     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0301-5629(88)90077-4     Document Type: Article

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