Numerical simulation of the acoustic field of a phased-array medical ultrasound scanner

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 104, Issue 3 I, 1998, Pages 1274-1283

  Cahill, Mark D ^a   Baker, Andrew C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

^b CHRISTIAN MICHELSEN RESEARCH AS   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXTRAPOLATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONIC DEVICES; ULTRASONIC EFFECTS; ULTRASONIC MEASUREMENT; ULTRASONIC PROPAGATION;

ACOUSTIC FIELD; BERGEN CODE; PHASED ARRAY MEDICAL ULTRASOUND SCANNER; TRANSFORMED BEAM EQUATION;

ULTRASONIC TRANSMISSION;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; ECHOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION;

EID: 0032168988     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.424336     Document Type: Article

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