Probing acoustic fields of clinically relevant transducers: The effect of hydrophone probes' finite apertures and bandwidths

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 51, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1262-1270

  Radulescu, Emil G ^a   Lewin, Peter A ^b   Wójcik, Janusz ^c   Nowicki, Andrzej ^c  

^a Aloka   (United States)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGING TRANSDUCERS; MECHANICAL INDEX; PRESSURE AMPLITUDES; ULTRASONIC HYDROPHONES;

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; BANDWIDTH; FIR FILTERS; HYDROPHONES; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ACOUSTIC TRANSDUCERS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; RADIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSDUCER;

ALGORITHMS; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 8344258017     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2004.1350954     Document Type: Article

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