Finite element modeling for ultrasonic transducers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3341, Issue , 1998, Pages 19-42

  Abboud, Najib N ^a   Wojcik, Gregory L ^a   Vaughan, David K ^a   Mould, John ^a   Powell, David J ^a   Nikodym, Lisa ^a  

^a WEIDLINGER ASSOCIATES INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Arrays; Attenuation; Finite Element Method; Imaging; Piezoelectric; Transducer; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ARRAYS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEDICAL IMAGING; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

IMAGING ARRAYS;

ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 0032401685     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.308015     Document Type: Conference Paper

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