Estimating in situ exposure in the presence of acoustic nonlinearity

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 43-53

  Duck, Francis A ^a  

^a ROYAL UNITED HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acoustic nonlinearity; Finite amplitude; In situ exposure; Spectral index

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; CONFERENCE PAPER; SOUND INTENSITY; SOUND PRESSURE; SOUND TRANSMISSION; ULTRASOUND;

EID: 0032925327     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/jum.1999.18.1.43     Document Type: Conference Paper

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