Acoustic power calibration of high-intensity focused ultrasound transducers using a radiation force technique

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 121, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1434-1439

  Maruvada, Subha ^a   Harris, Gerald R ^a   Herman, Bruce A ^a   King, Randy L ^b  

^a CENTER FOR DEVICES AND RADIOLOGICAL HEALTH   (United States)

^b King Acoustic Technologies LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC INTENSITY; CALIBRATION; ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION; ULTRASONIC EFFECTS; ULTRASONIC MEASUREMENT;

ACOUSTIC POWER; RADIATION FORCES; ULTRASONIC POWER;

ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

ABSORPTION; ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; FORCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION; RADIATION ENERGY; TEMPERATURE; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER;

EID: 34147182208     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2431332     Document Type: Article

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