Parametric study of the peak negative acoustic pressure distribution within the image plane of a phased array transducer

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 1092-1102

  D'Hooge, Jan ^a,b   Schrooten, Maarten ^c   Bijnens, Bart ^a,c   Thoen, Jan ^a,d   Van De Werf, Frans ^c   Sutherland, George ^c   Suetens, Paul ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Belgium)

^b Katholieke Universiteit Leuven   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^d KU LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC PRESSURE DISTRIBUTION; ECHOGRAPHY; PHASED ARRAY TRANSDUCER;

BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYDROPHONES; PRESSURE DISTRIBUTION; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONIC MEASUREMENT;

ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; PRESSURE; SAFETY; STATISTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSDUCER;

ACOUSTICS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; CONTRAST MEDIA; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PRESSURE; SAFETY; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 0035384799     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/58.935728     Document Type: Article

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