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A Performance Improvement of Ultrasonic Diagnosis Transducer by Transient Acoustic Field Analysis  

박은주 (부경대학교 대학원 음향진동공학협동과정)
송행용 (부경대학교 물리학과)
김무준 (부경대학교 물리학과)
김동현 (㈜프로소닉 연구개발부)
이수성 (㈜프로소닉 연구개발부)
하강열 (부경대학교 물리학과)
Abstract
The transient acoustic fields formed by a 3.5 ㎒ curved linear array transducer which is commonly used in ultrasonic medical imaging system for diagnosis of abdomen are systematically analyzed to obtain new design parameters for the better acoustic image. In the analysis with an assumption of radiating waveform, element size, radius of curvature, amplitude apodization are considered as parameters giving constitutive relations with the fields. As simulation results, appropriate new parameters with the reduced curvature and elevation aperture and the apodization of Hamming window, which make an improved acoustic beam with lower side lobe levels than a conventional typical transducer, are obtained.
Keywords
Ultrasound; Transient acoustic field; Transducer; Curved linear array; Ultrasonic diagnostic equipment;
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