Characterization of optoacoustic transducers through the analysis of angular-dependent frequency response

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7177, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Conjusteau, Andre ^a   Ermilov, Sergey A ^a   Su, Richard ^a   Brecht, Hans Peter ^a   Fronheiser, Matthew P ^b   Oraevsky, Alexander A ^a  

^a Fairway Medical Technologies Inc   (United States)

^b Seno Medical Instruments   (United States)

Author keywords

Impulse response; Optoacoustic detection; Plane wave generation; Transducer directivity

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC IMPULSE; ANGULAR DEPENDENCE; BACK-ILLUMINATION; DEPENDENT FREQUENCIES; DIRECTIVITY; LOW FREQUENCY; OPERATING CONDITION; OPTOACOUSTIC DETECTION; OPTOACOUSTIC TRANSDUCERS; PLANAR SURFACE; PLANE WAVE GENERATION; SHORT LASER PULSE; TRANSDUCER SENSITIVITY; ULTRASONIC SOURCES;

ACOUSTIC WAVES; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); DETECTORS; IMPULSE RESPONSE; INVERSE PROBLEMS; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; PHOTONS; PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONICS;

FREQUENCY RESPONSE;

EID: 66249097399     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.812339     Document Type: Conference Paper

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