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Contrast-Enhanced Subharmonic Aided Pressure Estimation (SHAPE) Using Ultrasound Imaging with a Focus on Identifying Portal Hypertension
Published on: December 5, 2020
Estimating acoustic peak pressure generated by ultrasound transducers from harmonic distortion level measurement
Guillaume M Matte1, Jerome M G Borsboom, Paul van Neer
1Biomedical Engineering, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, the Netherlands. g.matte@erasmusmc.nl
Abstract:
Pressure amplitude measurement is important for general research on ultrasound. Because it requires high accuracy, it is usually done using a hydrophone calibrated by an accredited laboratory. In this paper, a method is proposed for estimating the pressure amplitude in the ultrasound field using an uncalibrated single-element transducer and Khokhlov-Zabolotskaya-Kuznetsov simulations of the ultrasound field. The accuracy of the method is shown to be better than 20% for slightly focused and nonfocused transducers. Extending the method to a pulse-echo setup enables pressure measurement of a transducer without the need for an extra transducer or hydrophone.
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