Hydrophones, fundamental features, design considerations, and various structures: A review

H Saheban, Z Kordrostami - Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper presents a comprehensive review of hydrophones, their design considerations,
physical aspects, and structures by reviewing many publications that have been published …

Hydrophone measurements for biomedical ultrasound applications: A review

GR Harris, SM Howard, AM Hurrell… - IEEE transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents basic principles of hydrophone measurements, including mechanisms
of action for various hydrophone designs, sensitivity and directivity calibration procedures …

Review of field characterization techniques for high intensity therapeutic ultrasound

G Xing, V Wilkens, P Yang - Metrologia, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
High-intensity therapeutic ultrasound (HITU) is a minimally invasive and non-ionizing
medical procedure used to combat cancers. Faithful characterization of HITU fields is …

Investigation of the repeatability and reproducibility of hydrophone measurements of medical ultrasound fields

E Martin, B Treeby - The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Accurate measurements of acoustic pressure are required for characterisation of ultrasonic
transducers and for experimental validation of models of ultrasound propagation. Errors in …

A noninvasive deep brain stimulation method via temporal-spatial interference magneto-acoustic effect: simulation and experimental validation

R Liu, R Ma, X Liu, X Zhou, X Wang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deep brain transcranial stimulation is used in both research and for the treatment of
neuropsychological diseases. Ideally, such stimulation should be noninvasive and precisely …

Hydrophone spatial averaging correction for acoustic exposure measurements from arrays—Part I: Theory and impact on diagnostic safety indexes

KA Wear - IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article reports underestimation of mechanical index (MI) and nonscanned thermal index
for bone near focus (TIB) due to hydrophone spatial averaging effects that occur during …

The characteristic analysis of phase-controlled array thermo-acoustic emission with multiple emitting surfaces

K Zhang, D Wang, J Zhou, Y Su, H Ding, H Hu… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Thermo-acoustic (TA) ultrasound, particularly when combined with phased-
controlled array technology, has garnered significant interest in the past decade due to its …

Spatiotemporal deconvolution of hydrophone response for linear and nonlinear beams—Part I: Theory, spatial-averaging correction formulas, and criteria for sensitive …

KA Wear - IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article reports spatiotemporal deconvolution methods and simple empirical formulas to
correct pressure and beamwidth measurements for spatial averaging across a hydrophone …

[HTML][HTML] Ultrasonic needle hydrophone calibration in air by a parabolic off-axis mirror focused beam using three-transducer reciprocity

L Svilainis, A Chaziachmetovas, P Kaskonas… - Ultrasonics, 2023 - Elsevier
An acoustic field distribution investigation in air requires a small receiving sensor. Needle
hydrophones seem to be an attractive solution, and it has previously been demonstrated that …

Directivity and frequency-dependent effective sensitive element size of membrane hydrophones: Theory versus experiment

KA Wear, C Baker, P Miloro - IEEE transactions on ultrasonics …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
It is important to know hydrophone frequency-dependent effective sensitive element size in
order to account for spatial averaging artifacts in acoustic output measurements. Frequency …