Lens-focused transducer modeling using an extended KLM model

Ultrasonics

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 155-167

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

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOURS   (France)

Author keywords

Acoustical impedance; Electrical impedance; Focusing; Longitudinal wave; Modeling; Transducer

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; ACOUSTOELECTRIC EFFECTS; BANDWIDTH; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS;

ACOUSTICAL IMPEDANCE; ELECTRICAL IMPEDANCE; LONGITUDINAL WAVES;

ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSDUCER;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LENSES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 34247485510     PISSN: 0041624X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultras.2007.01.006     Document Type: Article

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