Modeling nonlinear ultrasound propagation in heterogeneous media with power law absorption using a k-space pseudospectral method

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 131, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 4324-4336

  Treeby, Bradley E ^a   Jaros, Jiri ^a   Rendell, Alistair P ^a   Cox, B T ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3D SIMULATIONS; ACOUSTIC EQUATION; ACOUSTIC WAVELENGTH; BEAM PATTERN; COMPUTATIONAL DOMAINS; COMPUTATIONAL GRIDS; CONVECTIVE NONLINEARITY; DEVELOPED MODEL; FIRST-ORDER; GOVERNING EQUATIONS; GRADIENT CALCULATIONS; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIA; K-SPACE; MEDIUM HETEROGENEITY; NON-LINEAR ULTRASOUND; NONLINEAR WAVE PROPAGATION; NUMBER OF GRIDS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; PRESSURE-DENSITY RELATION; PSEUDOSPECTRAL; PSEUDOSPECTRAL METHODS; SPATIAL GRADIENTS; ULTRASOUND PROBES; FOURIER COLLOCATION METHOD;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL NONLINEARITIES; FLUID MECHANICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ACOUSTIC FIELDS; ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; NUMERICAL METHODS; ULTRASONIC PROPAGATION; ULTRASONIC TRANSMISSION; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ULTRASONIC PROPAGATION; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

EID: 84871786769     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4712021     Document Type: Article

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