Optoacoustic methods for frequency calibration of ultrasonic sensors

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 316-326

  Rosenthal, Amir ^a,b   Ntziachristos, Vasilis ^a   Razansky, Daniel ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic measurements; Acoustics; Calibration; Detectors; Frequency measurement; Geometry; Image edge detection

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC DETECTOR; ACOUSTIC MEASUREMENTS; ACOUSTIC SENSORS; ACOUSTIC WAVELENGTH; BROADBAND SPECTRA; DIRECT CALIBRATION; DISCRETE FREQUENCIES; FLAT DETECTORS; FREQUENCY CALIBRATION; FREQUENCY MEASUREMENT; IMAGE EDGE DETECTION; MEASUREMENT CONFIGURATION; OPTO-ACOUSTICS; OPTOACOUSTIC METHOD; OPTOACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY; PIEZOELECTRIC DETECTOR; PLANE WAVE; POINT SOURCES; SENSITIVITY CHARACTERISTICS; ULTRASONIC DETECTORS; WIDE-BAND;

ACOUSTIC MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; ACOUSTOOPTICAL EFFECTS; CALIBRATION; EDGE DETECTION; ELECTROACOUSTIC TRANSDUCERS; GEOMETRY; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; SENSORS; TOMOGRAPHY; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONICS;

FREQUENCY RESPONSE;

AGAR; MICROSPHERE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; ECHOGRAPHY; FOURIER ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARD; TOMOGRAPHY;

AGAR; ALGORITHMS; CALIBRATION; FOURIER ANALYSIS; MICROSPHERES; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOMOGRAPHY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 79952020924     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2011.1809     Document Type: Article

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