20 MHz/40 MHz dual element transducers for high frequency harmonic imaging

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 55, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2683-2691

  Kim, Hyung Ham ^a   Cannata, Jonathan M ^a   Liu, Ruibin ^a   Chang, Jin Ho ^a   Silverman, Ronald H ^b,c   Shung, K Kirk ^a  

^a University of Southern California   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c RIVERSIDE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3 DB BANDWIDTH; CENTER FREQUENCY; DUAL ELEMENT TRANSDUCERS; ELECTRICAL IMPEDANCE; FIELD II; HARMONIC IMAGING; HARMONIC SIGNALS; HIGH SENSITIVITY; HIGH-FREQUENCY HARMONICS; HUMAN EYE; LITHIUM NIOBATE; LOW DIELECTRIC CONSTANTS; MATCHING LAYER; OPHTHALMIC IMAGING; POSTERIOR SEGMENT; RING DIAMETER; RING ELEMENTS; SECOND HARMONIC SIGNALS; SECOND-HARMONIC IMAGING; SIMULATED RESULTS; SINGLE ELEMENT; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TIME DOMAIN; WIDE BANDWIDTH;

BANDWIDTH; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; LITHIUM; NIOBIUM COMPOUNDS; SIGNAL ANALYSIS; TRANSDUCERS;

HARMONIC ANALYSIS;

LITHIUM NIOBATE; NIOBIUM; OXIDE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EYE; HUMAN; IMPEDANCE; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SWINE; TRANSDUCER;

ANIMALS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; EYE; HUMANS; NIOBIUM; OXIDES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SWINE; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 68149119346     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2008.983     Document Type: Article

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