Effect of acoustical properties of a lens on the pulse-echo response of a single element transducer

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn 3, Issue , 2004, Pages 1651-1654

  Maréchal, Pierre ^a   Levassort, Franck ^a   Tran Huu Hue, Louis Pascal ^a   Lethiecq, Marc ^a   Félix, Nicolas ^b  

^a LUSSI/GIP Ultrasons   (France)

^b Innovation Department   (France)

Author keywords

Finite element; Focusing; Modeling; Pulse echo

Indexed keywords

CONCAVE LENSES; FINITE ELEMENT; PULSE-ECHO; SINGLE ELEMENT TRANSDUCERS;

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; ACOUSTOELECTRIC EFFECTS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FOCUSING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TRANSDUCERS;

LENSES;

EID: 21644458810     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2004.1418139     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (5)

1. Golis M.J., An analysis of the ultrasonic zone lens, IEEE Transactions on Sonics and Ultrasonics, 1968, 15(2): p. 105-110.
2. Kossof G., Analysis of focusing action of spherically curved transducers. Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, 1979, 5(4): p. 359-365.
3. Wang H., Cao W., Characterizing ultra-thin matching layers of high-frequency ultrasonic transducer based on impedance matching principle. IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control, 2004, 51(2): p. 211-215.
4. Tran-Huu-Hue L.P., Desmare R., Levassort F., Lethiecq M., A KLM circuit based method for modeling multilayer piezoelectric structures. IEEE Proceedings of the Ultrasonics Symposium. 1997: p. 995-998.
5. Marechal P., Levassort F., Tran-Huu-Hue L.P., Lethiecq M., Electro-acoustic response at the focal point of a focused transducer as a function of the acoustical properties of the lens. Proceeding of the 5th World Congress on Ultrasonics, 2003: p. 535-538.