Exposimetry of unfocused pulsed ultrasound
- 1 January 1994
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control
- Vol. 41 (1), 80-83
- https://doi.org/10.1109/58.265824
Abstract
Therapeutic applications of unfocused pulsed ultrasound have recently been identified and require specialized exposimetry. Spatial distributions of pressure and several measures of intensity are presented for an unfocused pulsed ultrasound field produced by a PZT-4 transducer with diameter 3.8 cm and center frequency 2 MHz. Distributions of pressure I/sub tp/ and I/sub m/ were adequately uniform over a 4-cm/sup 2/ area in a transverse plane at an axial distance of 7 cm, but not so for I/sub ta/ and I/sub pa/, which both exhibited off-axis asymmetric maxima.<>Keywords
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