Coupling of wideband impulses generated by granular chains into liquids for biomedical applications
Conference paper
Harput, S., Freear, S., Gelat, P., Saffari, N., Yang, J., Akanji, O., Thomas, P.J. and Hutchins, D.A. (2016). Coupling of wideband impulses generated by granular chains into liquids for biomedical applications. 2016 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS). Tours, France 18 - 21 Sep 2016 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). https://doi.org/10.1109/ULTSYM.2016.7728481
Authors | Harput, S., Freear, S., Gelat, P., Saffari, N., Yang, J., Akanji, O., Thomas, P.J. and Hutchins, D.A. |
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Type | Conference paper |
Abstract | An ultrasonic transducer technology to generate wideband impulses using a one-dimensional chain of spheres was previously presented. The Hertzian contact between the spheres causes the nonlinearity of the system to increase, which transforms high amplitude narrowband sinusoidal input into a train of wideband impulses. Generation of short duration ultrasonic pulses is desirable both in diagnostic and therapeutic ultrasound. Nevertheless, the biggest challenge in terms of adaptation to biomedical ultrasound is the coupling of the ultrasonic energy into biological tissue. An analytical model was created to address the coupling issue. Effect of the matching layer was modelled as a flexible thin plate clamped from the edges. Model was verified against hydrophone measurements. Different coupling materials, such as glass, aluminium, acrylic, silicon rubber, and vitreous carbon, was analysed with this model. Results showed that soft matching layers such as acrylic and rubber inhibit the generation of higher order harmonics. Between the hard matching materials, vitreous carbon achieved the best results due to its acoustic impedance. © 2016, IEEE. This is an author produced version of a paper published in Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), 2016 IEEE International. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other users, including reprinting/ republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted components of this work in other works. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self-archiving policy. |
Year | 2016 |
Publisher | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) |
ISSN | 1948-5727 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1109/ULTSYM.2016.7728481 |
Web address (URL) | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7728481 |
Accepted author manuscript | License File Access Level Open |
Publication dates | |
Online | 03 Nov 2016 |
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Accepted | 21 Sep 2016 |
Deposited | 12 Aug 2019 |
ISBN | 9781467398978 |
Web address (URL) of conference proceedings | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/7589760/proceeding |
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