Dual-frequency ultrasound imaging and therapeutic bilaminar array using frequency selective isolation layer

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1211-1224

  Azuma, Takashi ^a   Ogihara, Makoto ^a   Kubota, Jun ^a   Sasaki, Akira ^a   Umemura, Shin Ichiro ^b   Furuhata, Hiroshi ^c  

^a HITACHI LTD   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c JIKEI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1-D MODELS; 2-D MODEL; ACOUSTIC WINDOWS; ARRAY TRANSDUCERS; BILAMINAR; CONVENTIONAL IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC ULTRASOUND; DOPPLER IMAGES; DOPPLER IMAGING; DUAL FREQUENCY; DUAL-FREQUENCY ULTRASOUND; FREQUENCY-SELECTIVE; HIGH EFFICIENCY; IMAGING ARRAYS; INTUITIVE UNDERSTANDING; LEAD ZIRCONATE TITANATE; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; OPTIMAL FREQUENCY; PULSE PROPAGATION; SONOTHROMBOLYSIS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TRANSCRANIAL; TRANSCRANIAL ULTRASOUND; ULTRASOUND ARRAYS;

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DOPPLER EFFECT; OPTIMIZATION; SEMICONDUCTING LEAD COMPOUNDS; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONICS;

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE;

LEAD; LEAD TITANATE ZIRCONATE; TITANIUM; ZIRCONIUM;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; TRANSDUCER;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; LEAD; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; TITANIUM; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL; ZIRCONIUM;

EID: 77951895244     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2010.1534     Document Type: Article

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