Effects of fine metal oxide particle dopant on the acoustic properties of silicone rubber lens for medical array probe

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 54, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1589-1595

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

^a IEEE

^b TOSHIBA CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; DOPING (ADDITIVES); NANOPARTICLES; SILICONES;

ACOUSTIC ATTENUATION; ACOUSTIC LENS; METAL OXIDE PARTICLES;

LENSES;

ALUMINUM OXIDE; BISMUTH; BISMUTH OXIDE; CERIC OXIDE; CERIUM; HAFNIUM; LUTETIUM; NANOPARTICLE; OXIDE; SILICONE DERIVATIVE; TITANIUM; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; YTTERBIUM;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; PARTICLE SIZE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURFACE PROPERTY;

ACOUSTICS; ALUMINUM OXIDE; BISMUTH; CERIUM; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HAFNIUM; LUTETIUM; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; NANOPARTICLES; OXIDES; PARTICLE SIZE; SILICONES; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TITANIUM; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; YTTERBIUM;

EID: 34548095060     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2007.429     Document Type: Article

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