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 …

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 …

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 …

Quantitative photoacoustic tomography: modeling and inverse problems

T Tarvainen, B Cox - Journal of Biomedical Optics, 2024 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Significance Quantitative photoacoustic tomography (QPAT) exploits the photoacoustic
effect with the aim of estimating images of clinically relevant quantities related to the tissue's …

Nominal Versus Actual Spatial Resolution: Comparison of Directivity and Frequency-Dependent Effective Sensitive Element Size for Membrane, Needle, Capsule, and …

KA Wear, A Shah - IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Frequency-dependent effective sensitive element radius is a key parameter for elucidating
physical mechanisms of hydrophone operation. In addition, it is essential to know to correct …

Localized measurement of a sub-nanosecond shockwave pressure rise time

J Petelin, Ž Lokar, D Horvat - IEEE transactions on ultrasonics …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In a growing number of applications, fast and localized pressure measurement in aqueous
media is desired. To perform such measurements, a custom-made single-mode fiber-optic …

Hydrophone spatial averaging correction for acoustic exposure measurements from arrays—Part II: Validation for ARFI and pulsed Doppler waveforms

KA Wear, A Shah, AM Ivory… - IEEE transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article reports the experimental validation of a method for correcting underestimates of
peak compressional pressure (p_c), peak rarefactional pressure (p_r), and pulse intensity …

Spatiotemporal deconvolution of hydrophone response for linear and nonlinear beams—Part II: Experimental validation

KA Wear, A Shah, C Baker - IEEE transactions on ultrasonics …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article reports experimental validation for spatiotemporal deconvolution methods and
simple empirical formulas to correct pressure and beamwidth measurements for spatial …