Characteristics of the audio sound generated by ultrasound imaging systems

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 117, Issue 3 I, 2005, Pages 1448-1455

  Fatemi, Mostafa ^a   Alizad, Azra ^a   Greenleaf, James F ^a  

^a Mayo Clinic College of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; ACOUSTICS; FETAL MONITORING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; LASER PULSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; ULTRASONICS;

HIGH-ENERGY PULSES; MEDICAL ULTRASOUND SCANNERS; PULSE REPETITION FREQUENCY; PULSE-AVERAGE INTENSITY VALUE;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ARTICLE; ECHOGRAPHY; HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; IMAGING SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY; SOUND PRESSURE; THEORETICAL MODEL; ULTRASOUND SCANNER;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACOUSTICS; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SOUND; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; ULTRASONICS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; VIBRATION;

EID: 14844363747     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1852856     Document Type: Article

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