Reflector-based phase calibration of ultrasound transducers

Ultrasonics

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-6

  Van Neer, Paul L M J ^a   Vos, Hendrik J ^a   De Jong, Nico ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Impulse response; Phase; Pulse echo; Transducer calibration; Transfer function

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC METHOD; ACOUSTIC PULSE; ACOUSTIC WAVE SPEED; AT RESONANCE; AXIAL DISTANCE; FREQUENCY RANGES; IMAGING METHOD; IN-PHASE; LINEAR WAVE PROPAGATION; MICRO-BUBBLE; OPTICAL METHODS; PHASE; PHASE CALIBRATION; PHASE TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; PULSE ECHOES; REPRODUCIBILITIES; SIMULATIONS AND MEASUREMENTS; STEADY-STATE REGIME; TRANSIENT REGIME; TRAVEL DISTANCE; ULTRASOUND CONTRAST; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCERS;

ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; ACOUSTIC WAVES; CALIBRATION; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; IMPULSE RESPONSE; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONICS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

TRANSDUCERS;

ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; ECHOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSDUCER;

CALIBRATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 77957938073     PISSN: 0041624X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultras.2010.05.001     Document Type: Article

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