Non-linear propagation of limited diffraction beams [in medical US imaging]

JF Synnevag, S Holm - 1998 IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium …, 1998 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently, harmonic imaging has been shown to increase image quality in medical imaging.
This is believed to be caused by decreased sidelobes. It is also due to a decreased …

Acoustic bullets/transient Bessel beams: Near to far field transition via an impulse response approach

PR Stepanishen - The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1998 - pubs.aip.org
Acoustic transient Bessel beams (TBB) are a new class of waves which maintain their peak
amplitude and general shape as they propagate in free space from an infinite planar …

Nonlinear and dissipative constitutive equations for coupled first‐order acoustic field equations that are consistent with the generalized Westervelt equation

MD Verweij, J Huijssen - AIP Conference Proceedings, 2006 - pubs.aip.org
In diagnostic medical ultrasound, it has become increasingly important to evaluate the
nonlinear field of an acoustic beam that propagates in a weakly nonlinear, dissipative …

A fast Gaussian beam description of ultrasonic fields based on Prony's method

MD Prange, RG Shenoy - Ultrasonics, 1996 - Elsevier
Abundant theoretical and experimental work has shown that axisymmetric transducer fields
can be accurately and efficiently represented by a superposition of Gaussian beams. The …

Time domain formulation for pulse propagation including nonlinear behavior at a caustic

BE McDonald, WA Kuperman - The Journal of the Acoustical Society of …, 1987 - pubs.aip.org
This paper derives a simple three‐dimensional time domain formulation for small angle
propagation of finite amplitude acoustic pulses and weak shocks in a medium that can be …

Interaction of a nondiffracting high-order Bessel (vortex) beam of fractional type α and integer order m with a rigid sphere: linear acoustic scattering and net …

FG Mitri - IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Closed-form analytical solutions for the acoustic scattering and net axial force of a new class
of Bessel beams, termed nondiffracting Bessel vortex beams of fractional type α, are derived …

An improved wave-vector frequency-domain method for nonlinear wave modeling

Y Jing, M Tao, J Cannata - IEEE transactions on ultrasonics …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, a recently developed wave-vector frequency-domain method for nonlinear
wave modeling is improved and verified by numerical simulations and underwater …

A Gaussian beam method for ultrasonic non-destructive evaluation modeling

O Jacquet, N Leymarie… - Journal of Physics …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
The propagation of high-frequency ultrasonic body waves can be efficiently estimated with a
semi-analytic Dynamic Ray Tracing approach using paraxial approximation. Although this …

Modeling of pulsed finite-amplitude focused sound beams in time domain

J Tavakkoli, D Cathignol, R Souchon… - The Journal of the …, 1998 - pubs.aip.org
A time-domain numerical model is presented for simulating the finite-amplitude focused
acoustic pulse propagation in a dissipative and nonlinear medium with a symmetrical source …

Modeling of shock wave generated from a strong focused ultrasound transducer

T Chen, YY Qiu, TB Fan, D Zhang - Chinese Physics Letters, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
A combined time and frequency domain method is developed for the calculation of a shock
wave induced by a strong focused ultrasound transducer in the oblate spheroidal coordinate …