A design approach for obtaining medical transducers of high sensitivity, broad bandwidth, short impulse response, and good resolution is presented. It takes into account the effect of back-side loading on the choice of the quarter-wave matching layer that is applied to the front side of a PZT (lead zinc titanate) ceramic. Piston transducers and subdiced arrays are discussed. The impulse response and frquency bandpass are illustrated.
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McKeighen, R. E. (1989). Optimizing transducer design for medical imaging. In Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings (Vol. 11 pt 2, pp. 402–404). Publ by Alliance for Engineering in Medicine & Biology. https://doi.org/10.1109/iembs.1989.95790
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