Photoacoustic generation of focused quasi-unipolar pressure pulses

Journal of Innovative Optical Health Sciences

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 247-253

  Maslov, Konstantin ^a   Zhang, Hao F ^a   Wang, Lihong V ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

optoacoustics; Photoacoustics; ultrasound generation; unipolar pulse

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC PRESSURES; FIRST DERIVATIVE; FOCAL REGIONS; FREE BOUNDARY; NEGATIVE PRESSURES; OPTICAL ENERGY; POSITIVE PRESSURE; PRESSURE PULSE; SPATIAL PROFILES; TEMPORAL PROFILE; TIME-AVERAGED; TRANSDUCER SURFACE; ULTRASOUND GENERATION; UNIPOLAR PULSE;

PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; PRESSURE EFFECTS; TRANSDUCERS;

PULSE GENERATORS;

EID: 80052069392     PISSN: 17935458     EISSN: 17937205     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S1793545810001118     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. S. A. Hariti, S. Hole, J. Lewiner, "Broadening the potential bandwidth of piezoelectric transducers by partial depolarization", Appl. Phys. Lett. 78, 4037-4039 (2001). (Pubitemid 33599500)
2. M. DeBilly, L. Adler, G. Quentin, "About the use of trailing echoes for the detection of disbond at solid-solid interface", J. Phys. 4, 917-921 (1994).
3. D. A. Sotiropoulos, J. D. Achenbach, "Reflection of elastic-waves by a distribution of coplanar cracks", J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 84, 752-759 (1988).
4. C. C. Church, "A theoretical study of acoustic cavitation produced by 'positive-only' and 'negativeonly' pressure waves in relation to in vivo studies", Ultrasound in Med. Biol. 29, 319-330 (2003). (Pubitemid 36349290)
5. D. Dalecki, et al., "Bioeffects of positive and negative acoustic pressures in mice infused with microbubbles", Ultrasound in Med. Biol. 26, 1327-1332 (2000).
6. R. G. Peterson, M. Rosen, "Use of the thick transducers to generate short duration stress pulses in thin specimens", J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 41, 336-345 (1967).
7. F. S. Foster, J. W. Hunt, "The design and characterization of short pulse ultrasound transducers", Ultrasonics 16, 116-122 (1978). (Pubitemid 8324320)
8. J. P. Sferruzza, A. Birer, D. Cathignol, "Generation of very high pressure pulses at the surface of a sandwiched piezoelectric material", Ultrasonics 38, 965-968 (2000). (Pubitemid 32033646)
9. A. A. Oraevsky, S. L. Jacques, F. K. Tittel, "Measurement of tissue optical properties by timeresolved detection of laser-induced transient stress", Appl. Opt. 36, 402-415 (1997). (Pubitemid 127615591)
10. P. A. Fomitchov, A. K. Kromine, S. Krishnaswamy, "Photoacoustic probes for nondestructive testing and biomedical applications", Appl. Opt. 41, 4451-4459 (2002). (Pubitemid 34878963)
11. I. G. Calasso, W. Craig, G. J. Diebold, "Photoacoustic point source", Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3550-3553 (2001). (Pubitemid 32416174)
12. P. R. Stepanishen, "Transient radiation from pistons in an infinite planar baffle", J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 49, 1629-1638 (1971).
13. P. M. Morse, K. V. Ingard, Theoretical Acoustics, McGraw-Hill, New York (1968), p. 322.
14. H. O'Neil, "Theory of focusing radiators", J. Acoust. Soc. Amer. 21, 516-526 (1949).