Characterization of HIFU transducers designed for sonochemistry application: Cavitation distribution and quantification

Ultrasonics

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 310-317

  Hallez, L ^a   Touyeras, F ^a   Hihn, J Y ^a   Klima, J ^b   Guey, J L ^c   Spajer, M ^a   Bailly, Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE FRANCHE COMTÉ   (France)

^b Institut Heyrovsky of Physical Chemistry   (Czech Republic)

^c IMASONIC Company   (France)

Author keywords

Acoustic cavitation; HIFU; MBSCL threshold; Sonoreactors

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC ACTIVITY; ACOUSTIC CAVITATIONS; ACOUSTIC FIELD DISTRIBUTION; CAVITATION ACTIVITY; CAVITATION BUBBLE; FOCAL ZONES; HIFU TRANSDUCERS; HIGH CONCENTRATION; INERTIAL CAVITATION; LASER TOMOGRAPHY; OUTER LAYER; PHOTON COUNTING; SONOCHEMICAL;

ACOUSTIC FIELDS; ELECTROACOUSTIC TRANSDUCERS; PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS; QUENCHING; SONOCHEMISTRY; TOMOGRAPHY;

CAVITATION;

EID: 71549171720     PISSN: 0041624X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultras.2009.09.011     Document Type: Article

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