Verification of the westervelt equation for focused transducers

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1097-1101

  Jing, Yun ^a   Shen, Du ^b   Clement, Greg T ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR SPECTRUM METHOD; APERTURE ANGLE; FOCUSED TRANSDUCER; NONLINEAR APPROXIMATION; NONLINEARITY COEFFICIENT; SECOND-HARMONIC; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCERS; WESTERVELT EQUATION;

ACOUSTIC FIELDS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

CONTROL NONLINEARITIES;

EID: 79957808637     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2011.1910     Document Type: Article

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