Self-heating of Diagnostic Ultrasound Transducers in Air and in Contact with Tissue Mimics

Ultrasound

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 100-108

  Calvert, Justine ^a   Duck, Francis ^a  

^a ROYAL UNITED HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84997942002     PISSN: 1742271X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/174313406X93603     Document Type: Article

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