Single-element PLZT transducer for wide-bandwidth imaging of solid materials

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 1926-1930

  Singh, Rahul S ^a   Culjat, Martin ^b,c   Neurgaonkar, R R ^e   White, Shane N ^c   Grundfest, Warren S ^b,d   Brown, Elliott R ^a  

^a Santa Barbara   (United States)

^b Center for Advanced Surgical and Interventional Technology CASIT   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering   (United States)

^e Sonatech Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

High impedance; Mason model; Piezoelectric; Transducer; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

BEAM WIDTHS; CHIP PACKAGES; CLUTTERED ENVIRONMENTS; COUPLANTS; DIELECTRIC CONSTANTS; ELECTROMECHANICAL COUPLING COEFFICIENTS; HARD TISSUES; HIGH IMPEDANCE; HUMAN TEETHS; IMPEDANCE MISMATCH; INSTANTANEOUS BANDWIDTH; LARGE PARTS; LEAD LANTHANUM ZIRCONATE TITANATE; MASON MODEL; MATCH FILTER; NARROW PULSE WIDTHS; OPERATING FREQUENCY; OTHER APPLICATIONS; PIEZOELECTRIC; PZT; RANGE RESOLUTION; RESPONSIVITY; SINGLE PULSE; SMALL FEATURES; SOLID MATERIAL; SURFACE CLUTTER; THICKNESS MODES; TRANSDUCER DESIGN; ULTRASOUND; ULTRASOUND IMAGING;

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENT; BANDWIDTH; CLUTTER (INFORMATION THEORY); CRACK DETECTION; ELECTROMECHANICAL COUPLING; ELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; GALLIUM; GALLIUM ALLOYS; IMPEDANCE MATCHING (ELECTRIC); INDIUM; INDIUM ALLOYS; MEDICAL IMAGING; PIEZOELECTRICITY; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONICS;

PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 78649337086     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2006.487     Document Type: Conference Paper

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