Transfer functions of US transducers for harmonic imaging and bubble responses

Ultrasonics

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 336-340

  van Neer, Paul L M J ^a   Matte, Guillaume ^a   Sijl, Jeroen ^b   Borsboom, Jerome M G ^a   de Jong, Nico ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Efficiency; Reciprocity; Sensitivity; Transducer; Transfer function

Indexed keywords

HARMONIC ANALYSIS; HYDROPHONES; PIEZOELECTRIC MATERIALS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SINGLE CRYSTALS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

ACOUSTIC RESPONSE; NONLINEAR PROPAGATION; RECIPROCITY;

TRANSDUCERS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHOGRAPHY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBUBBLE; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSDUCER;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROBUBBLES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 35348992137     PISSN: 0041624X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultras.2007.05.002     Document Type: Article

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