Investigations of compact self focusing transducers using stacked piezoelectric elements for strong sound pulses in therapy

Proceedings of the IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn 2, Issue , 2000, Pages 1239-1242

  Dreyer, Thomas ^a   Krauss, Werner ^a   Bauer, Edgar ^a   Riedlinger, Rainer E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC INSULATION; EPOXY RESINS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HIGH PRESSURE EFFECTS; IMPEDANCE MATCHING (ACOUSTIC); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PULSE GENERATORS; WAVEFRONTS;

SELF FOCUSING TRANSDUCERS;

PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 0034579597     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (6)

1. Generation of a very high pressure pulse at the surface of a sandwiched piezoelectric material, collected papers
2. Transient response of cylindrical piezoceramics used in self focusing transducers for therapy
3. The effects of backing and matching on the performance of piezoelectric ceramic transducers
4. Intense focused ultrasound in medicine