Design and fabrication of a 40MHz transducer with enhanced bandwidth

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 799-802

  Liu, Jian Hung ^a   Chen, Sheng Yung ^a   Li, Pai Chi ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Annular transducers; Broadband transducers; High frequency transducers

Indexed keywords

ANNULAR GEOMETRY; ANNULAR TRANSDUCERS; AXIAL RESOLUTIONS; BEAM WIDTHS; BROADBAND TRANSDUCERS; CENTER FREQUENCY; FABRICATION METHOD; FRACTIONAL BANDWIDTHS; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; HIGH FREQUENCY TRANSDUCERS; MULTIPLE-BAND; SINGLE ELECTRODES; SINGLE ELEMENT; TISSUE HARMONIC IMAGING;

BANDWIDTH; FABRICATION;

PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 67649312323     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2008.0192     Document Type: Conference Paper

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