Measurement of the spectral directivity of optoacoustic and ultrasonic transducers with a laser ultrasonic source

Review of Scientific Instruments

Volumn 80, Issue 9, 2009, Pages

  Conjusteau, Andŕ ^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

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC IMPULSE; ANGULAR DEPENDENCE; BACK-ILLUMINATION; DIRECTIVITY; DIRECTIVITY MEASUREMENTS; INCIDENT ANGLES; LASER ULTRASONICS; LOW FREQUENCY; OPERATING CONDITION; PHASE INCOHERENCE; PLANAR SURFACE; PLANARITY; PROPRIETARY SOFTWARE; SHORT LASER PULSE; ULTRASONIC SOURCES; WIDE-BAND;

ELECTROACOUSTIC TRANSDUCERS; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LASER PULSES; LASERS; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY; PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; TOMOGRAPHY; ULTRASONIC EQUIPMENT; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC WAVES; ULTRASONICS;

ULTRASONIC MEASUREMENT;

ARTICLE; ELASTOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; ILLUMINATION; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; RADIATION SCATTERING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSDUCER; ULTRASOUND;

ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS; LIGHTING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONICS;

EID: 70349662097     PISSN: 00346748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3227836     Document Type: Article

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