Effects of fine metal oxide particle dopant on the acoustic properties of silicone rubber lens for medical array probe

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 796-799

  Hosono, Yasuharu ^a   Yamashita, Yohachi ^a   Itsumi, Kazuhiro ^a  

^a TOSHIBA CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC ATTENUATION; ACOUSTIC LENS; FOCUS POINTS; HEAVY METAL OXIDES; HIGH DENSITY; HUMAN BODIES; MEDICAL ARRAYS; METAL OXIDE PARTICLES; NANOPARTICLE SIZES; SILICONE RUBBER; SOUND SPEED; SOUND VELOCITIES;

DOPING (ADDITIVES); ELASTOMERS; HAFNIUM COMPOUNDS; HARDNESS; HEAVY METALS; LENSES; METALLIC COMPOUNDS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; POWDER METALS; RUBBER; SILICONES; ULTRASONIC VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; YTTERBIUM;

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE;

EID: 78649365603     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2006.204     Document Type: Conference Paper

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