A 120-MHz ultrasound probe for tissue imaging

Ultrasonic Imaging

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 231-239

  Yokosawa, Koichi ^a   Shinomura, Ryuichi ^a   Sano, Shyuzo ^a   Ito, Yukio ^a   Ishikawa, Shizuo ^a   Sato, Yutaka ^a  

^a HITACHI LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

120 MHz transducer; bovine kidney; C mode; cylindrical plane; rod shaped probe; tissue characterization; ZnO

Indexed keywords

II-VI SEMICONDUCTORS; MAMMALS; OXIDE MINERALS; PROBES; SAPPHIRE; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS; ZINC OXIDE;

BACKSCATTERED ULTRASOUND; BOVINE KIDNEY; CYLINDRICAL PLANES; HIGH-LATERAL RESOLUTION; ROD-SHAPED; SAPPHIRE SUBSTRATES; TISSUE CHARACTERIZATION; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCERS;

TISSUE;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; RADIATION ATTENUATION; TISSUE PREPARATION; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER;

EID: 0030434551     PISSN: 01617346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/uimg.1996.0013     Document Type: Article

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