Design and fabrication of a 40-MHz annular array transducer

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 672-680

  Ketterling, Jeffrey A ^a   Aristizábal, Orlando ^b   Turnbull, Daniel H ^a,b   Lizzi, Frederic L ^a  

^a RIVERSIDE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNULAR ARRAYS; ARRAY ELEMENTS; AXIAL RANGE; COMPLEX IMPEDANCE;

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; BANDWIDTH; CROSSTALK; ELECTRODES; GEOMETRY; OPTIMIZATION; PLASTIC FILMS; PRODUCT DESIGN;

ACOUSTIC TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 19344364993     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2005.1428050     Document Type: Article

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