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Published on: May 9, 2021
The relationship between bubble concentration and the acoustic emission energy of separate frequency bands
Krit Sujarittam1, James J Choi1
1Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London, 2 Imperial College Road, South Kensington, London, SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom krit.sujarittam17@imperial.ac.uk, j.choi@imperial.ac.uk.
Abstract:
This letter presents the relationship between bubble concentration and the energy ratio of low to high frequency bands of their acoustic emissions. Two sensors, placed perpendicular and concentric to a transmitter, captured the emissions from sonicated microbubbles. Emissions from different bubbles arrived at the perpendicular sensor with small time differences. Low frequencies with periods longer than the time differences interfered constructively, while higher frequencies interfered both constructively and destructively. The low-frequency (2nd-3rd harmonics) to high-frequency (7th-12th harmonics) energy ratio increased with the bubble concentration. The relationship was not observed with the concentric sensor, where the time differences were larger.
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