Estimating Acoustic Peak Pressure Generated by Ultrasound Transducers from Harmonic Distortion Level Measurement

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 34, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1528-1532

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

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Amplitude estimation; Harmonic distortion; Nonlinear propagation; Wave amplitude

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE ESTIMATION; HARMONIC DISTORTION; HARMONIC DISTORTION LEVEL; HIGH-ACCURACY; NONLINEAR PROPAGATION; PEAK PRESSURES; PRESSURE AMPLITUDES; PULSE ECHOES; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCERS; WAVE AMPLITUDE;

ACOUSTIC TRANSDUCERS; ACOUSTIC WAVES; ELECTROACOUSTIC TRANSDUCERS; HYDROPHONES; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONICS;

TRANSDUCERS;

ARTICLE; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; ULTRASOUND; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER;

ALGORITHMS; CALIBRATION; HUMANS; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONICS;

EID: 49849085367     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2008.03.003     Document Type: Article

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