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标题：Transducer Field Imaging Using Acoustography
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作者：Jaswinder S. Sandhu ; Robert W. Schoonover ; Joshua I. Weber 等
期刊名称：Advances in Acoustics and Vibration
印刷版ISSN：1687-6261
电子版ISSN：1687-627X
出版年度：2012
卷号：2012
DOI：10.1155/2012/275858
出版社：Hindawi Publishing Corporation
摘要：A common current practice for transducer field mapping is to scan, point-by-point, a hydrophone element in a 2D raster at various distances from the transducer radiating surface. This approach is tedious, requiring hours of scanning time to generate full cross-sectional and/or axial field distributions. Moreover, the lateral resolution of the field distribution image is dependent on the indexing steps between data points. Acoustography is an imaging process in which an acousto-optical (AO) area sensor is employed to record the intensity of an ultrasound wavefield on a two-dimensional plane. This paper reports on the application of acoustography as a simple but practical method for assessing transducer field characteristics. A case study performed on a commercial transducer is reported, where the radiated fields are imaged using acoustography and compared to the corresponding quantities that are predicted numerically.