Effects of ceramic nanopowder dopants on acoustic attenuation properties of silicone rubber lens for medical echo probe

Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, Part 1: Regular Papers and Short Notes and Review Papers

Volumn 46, Issue 7 B, 2007, Pages 4784-4789

  Yamashita, Yohachi ^a   Hosono, Yasuharu ^a   Itsumi, Kazuhiro ^a  

^a TOSHIBA CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acoustic impedance; Acoustic lens; Attenuation; Ceramic; Density; Materials; Medical array transducers; Medical probe; Nanopowder; Silicone rubber; Sound velocity

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC IMAGING; ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; CERAMIC MATERIALS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

MEDICAL ARRAY TRANSDUCERS; MEDICAL PROBES; NANOPOWDERS; SILICONE RUBBER;

DOPING (ADDITIVES);

EID: 34547854765     PISSN: 00214922     EISSN: 13474065     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1143/JJAP.46.4784     Document Type: Article

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