Modeling of wave propagation for medical ultrasound: a review

J Gu, Y Jing - IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Numerical modeling of medical ultrasound has advanced tremendously in the past two
decades. This opens up a great number of opportunities for medical ultrasound and …

Experimental validation of a tractable numerical model for focused ultrasound heating in flow-through tissue phantoms

J Huang, RG Holt, RO Cleveland… - The Journal of the …, 2004 - pubs.aip.org
Heating from high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) can be used to control bleeding, both
from individual blood vessels as well as from gross damage to the capillary bed. The …

Mathematics of nonlinear acoustics

B Kaltenbacher - Evolution Equations and Control Theory, 2015 - aimsciences.org
The aim of this paper is to highlight some recent developments and outcomes in the
mathematical analysis of partial differential equations describing nonlinear sound …

A pumpless microfluidic device driven by surface tension for pancreatic islet analysis

Y Xing, M Nourmohammadzadeh, JEM Elias… - Biomedical …, 2016 - Springer
We present a novel pumpless microfluidic array driven by surface tension for studying the
physiology of pancreatic islets of Langerhans. Efficient fluid flow in the array is achieved by …

Numerical simulation of acoustic streaming on surface acoustic wave-driven biochips

D Köster - SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, 2007 - SIAM
A novel type of microfluidic biochip employs acoustic surface waves as a pumping
mechanism for fluids. Piezoelectric substrate materials in the chip efficiently convert an …

A high-order discontinuous Galerkin method for nonlinear sound waves

PF Antonietti, I Mazzieri, M Muhr, V Nikolić… - Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
We propose a high-order discontinuous Galerkin scheme for nonlinear acoustic waves on
polytopic meshes. To model sound propagation with losses through homogeneous media …

Parabolic approximation of quasilinear wave equations with applications in nonlinear acoustics

B Kaltenbacher, V Nikolic - SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis, 2022 - SIAM
This work deals with the convergence analysis of parabolic perturbations to quasilinear
wave equations on smooth bounded domains. In particular, we consider wave equations …

An arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian method for nonlinear structural-acoustic interaction of hyperelastic solid and compressible viscous fluid

Y Li, Y Qu, F Xie, G Meng - Journal of Computational Physics, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper develops a numerical method for predicting the nonlinear structural-acoustic
interactions of a hyperelastic solid immersed in an unbounded compressible viscous fluid …

An iterative method for the computation of nonlinear, wide-angle, pulsed acoustic fields of medical diagnostic transducers

J Huijssen, MD Verweij - The Journal of the Acoustical Society of …, 2010 - pubs.aip.org
The development and optimization of medical ultrasound transducers and imaging
modalities require a computational method that accurately predicts the nonlinear acoustic …

A priori error estimates for the finite element approximation of Westervelt's quasi-linear acoustic wave equation

V Nikolic, B Wohlmuth - SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, 2019 - SIAM
We study the spatial discretization of Westervelt's quasi-linear strongly damped wave
equation by piecewise linear finite elements. Our approach employs the Banach fixed-point …