Stress field forming of sector array transducers for vibro-acoustography

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 52, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1943-1951

  Silva, Glauber T ^a,b   Chen, Jhigao ^a,c   Frery, Alejandro C ^a,b   Greenleaf, James F ^a,c,d,e,f   Fatemi, Mostafa ^a,c,g  

^a IEEE   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF ALAGOAS   (Brazil)

^c MAYO GRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

^d Universidade Federal de Alagoas ^*  (Germany)

^e MAYO CLINIC COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^g Mayo Clinic   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAMFORMING; STRESS FIELDS; ULTRASOUND BEAMS; VIBRO-ACOUSTOGRAPHY;

FREQUENCIES; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; STRESS ANALYSIS; ULTRASONICS;

TRANSDUCERS;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BREAST; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHOMAMMOGRAPHY; ELASTICITY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; MECHANICAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSDUCER; VIBRATION;

ACOUSTICS; BREAST; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, MAMMARY; VIBRATION;

EID: 29144511139     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2005.1561663     Document Type: Article

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