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22 June 2016 Design of a bullet beam pattern of a micro ultrasound transducer (Conference Presentation)
Yongrae Roh, Seongmin Lee
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Proceedings Volume 9802, Nanosensors, Biosensors, and Info-Tech Sensors and Systems 2016; 98020V (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2219568
Event: SPIE Smart Structures and Materials + Nondestructive Evaluation and Health Monitoring, 2016, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
Abstract
Ultrasonic imaging transducer is often required to compose a beam pattern of a low sidelobe level and a small beam width over a long focal region to achieve good image resolution. Normal ultrasound transducers have many channels along its azimuth, which allows easy formation of the sound beam into a desired shape. However, micro-array transducers have no control of the beam pattern along their elevation. In this work, a new method is proposed to manipulate the beam pattern by using an acoustic multifocal lens and a shaded electrode on top of the piezoelectric layer. The shading technique split an initial uniform electrode into several segments and combined those segments to compose a desired beam pattern. For a given elevation width and frequency, the optimal pattern of the split electrodes was determined by means of the OptQuest-Nonlinear Program (OQ-NLP) algorithm to achieve the lowest sidelobe level. The requirement to achieve a small beam width with a long focal region was satisfied by employing an acoustic lens of three multiple focuses. Optimal geometry of the multifocal lens such as the radius of curvature and aperture diameter for each focal point was also determined by the OQ-NLP algorithm. For the optimization, a new index was devised to evaluate the on-axis response: focal region ratio = focal region / minimum beam width. The larger was the focal region ratio, the better was the beam pattern. Validity of the design has been verified through fabricating and characterizing an experimental prototype of the transducer.
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Yongrae Roh and Seongmin Lee "Design of a bullet beam pattern of a micro ultrasound transducer (Conference Presentation)", Proc. SPIE 9802, Nanosensors, Biosensors, and Info-Tech Sensors and Systems 2016, 98020V (22 June 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2219568
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KEYWORDS
Transducers
Ultrasonography
Electrodes
Acoustics
Beam controllers
Beam shaping
Beam splitters
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