Multiple-frequency ultrasonic imaging using a multiple-resonance transducer

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2712-2717

  Akiyama, Iwaki ^a   Yoshizumi, Natsuki ^a   Nakamura, Kentaro ^b  

^a SHONAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Component; Flat and broadband transducer; Piezoelectric transducer; Speckle reduction; Thick plate resonator

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS; GLASS CERAMICS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; PIEZOELECTRICITY; RESONANCE; RESONATORS; SPECKLE; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

BROADBAND CHARACTERISTICS; BROADBAND TRANSDUCERS; CLINICAL DIAGNOSIS; COMPONENT; IMAGING EXPERIMENTS; MULTIPLE RESONANCES; SPECKLE REDUCTION; THICK PLATE;

PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 77952844817     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2009.5441938     Document Type: Conference Paper

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