Sensitivity of ultrasonic hydrophone probes below 1 MHz

Ultrasonics

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 135-139

  Lewin, P A ^a   Lypacewicz, G ^b   Bautista, R ^a   Devaraju, V ^a  

^a Sci Hlth Syst Dept Elec C   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; CAVITATION; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; HYDROPHONES; PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS; POLYMERIC MEMBRANES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; ULTRASONIC EFFECTS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; VINYL RESINS;

ULTRASONIC HYDROPHONE;

ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

POLYMER;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CALIBRATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; TRANSDUCER; ULTRASOUND;

CALIBRATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; MINIATURIZATION; POLYMERS; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONICS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 0034154361     PISSN: 0041624X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0041-624X(00)00002-0     Document Type: Article

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