Design and fabrication of broadband graded ultrasonic transducers with rectangular kerfs

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 52, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 2096-2102

  Guo, Hongkai ^a,b,c,d   Cannata, Jonathan M ^a,b,e   Zhou, Qifa ^a,b,f,g   Shung, K Kirk ^a,b,d,h,i  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

^c Teledyne RD Instruments   (United States)

^d ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^g Materials Research Society   (United States)

^h American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine   (United States)

ⁱ American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND TRANSDUCERS; BROADBAND ULTRASOUND IMAGING; PIEZOELECTRIC PLATES; RESONANT MODES;

BANDWIDTH; CERAMIC MATERIALS; PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES; PRODUCT DESIGN; RESONANCE; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

ARTICLE; CERAMICS; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSDUCER;

CERAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 29144535371     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2005.1561680     Document Type: Article

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