Development of a 50mhz fabry-perot type fibre-optic hydrophone for the characterisation of medical ultrasound fields

Institute of Acoustics - Spring Conference Futures in Acoustics 2006: Today's Research - Tomorrow's Careers

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  Morris, P ^a   Hurrell, A ^b   Beard, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Precision Acoustics Ltd   (United Kingdom)

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