Handling IEC1157: Complicated output measurements - A challenge

Ultrasonics

Volumn 34, Issue 2-5, 1996, Pages 139-145

  Hekkenberg, R T ^a   Oosterbaan, W A ^a   Teirlinck, C J P M ^a  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Acoustic output measurements; Diagnostic ultrasound; Ultrasonic standardisation

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS; STANDARDS; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONIC MEASUREMENT; ULTRASONICS;

ACOUSTIC OUTPUT; DIAGNOSTIC ULTRASOUND; EUROPEAN MEDICAL DEVICE DIRECTIVE;

ULTRASONIC EQUIPMENT;

EID: 0030168404     PISSN: 0041624X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0041-624X(96)00034-0     Document Type: Article

References (9)

1. IEC1157 Standard. Requirements for the declaration of the acoustic output of medical diagnostic ultrasonic equipment (1992).
2. IEC1102 Standard. Measurement and characterisation of ultrasonic fields using hydrophones in the frequency range 0.5 MHz to 15 MHz (1991).
3. IEC1220 Technical report. Guidance for the measurement and characterisation of ultrasonic fields generated by medical ultrasonic equipment using hydrophones in the frequency range 0.5 MHz to 15 MHz (1993).
4. IEC1161 Standard. Ultrasonic power measurement in liquids in the frequency range 0.5 MHz to 15 MHz (1992).
5. IEC1101 Standard. The absolute calibration of hydrophones using the planar scanning technique in the frequency range 0.5 MHz to 15 MHz (1991).
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7. D.R. Bacon, Ultrasound in Med. & Biol. 8 (1982) 8A.
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9. R.C. Preston, Output Measurements for Medical Ultrasound (Springer-Verlag, 1991).