Simulation of second harmonic ultrasound fields

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 2191-2194

  Du, Yigang ^a,b   Jensen, Henrik ^b   Jensen, Jørgen Arendt ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b BK Medical   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Abersim; angular spectrum approach; Field II; second harmonic pressure

Indexed keywords

A-CENTER; ABERSIM; ACTIVE ELEMENTS; ANGULAR SPECTRUM APPROACHES; APODIZATIONS; EXECUTION TIME; FIELD II; FOCAL PLANE; HARMONIC COMPONENTS; HARMONIC PRESSURE; K-SPACE; LINEAR ARRAY TRANSDUCERS; NON-LINEAR; NON-LINEAR ULTRASOUND; OPERATOR SPLITTING METHOD; QUASI-LINEAR; RMS ERRORS; SECOND HARMONIC PRESSURE; SECOND HARMONICS; TRANSDUCER SURFACE; ULTRASOUND FIELDS; WESTERVELT EQUATION;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONICS;

HARMONIC ANALYSIS;

EID: 80054055907     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2010.5935585     Document Type: Conference Paper

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