Development of a MATLAB Environment Software for Simulation of Ultrasonic Field

The study of the acoustic field generated by an ultrasonic transducer is fundamental to its construction and characterization, because it defines how it will behave before being built. It also defines whether it is feasible or not, for the application to which it was designed. It can also lead to mo...

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Autores:
Tronco-Gasparini, R. (Reynaldo)
Nantes-Button, V. L. (Vera Lúcia da Silveira)
Tipo de recurso:
Article of journal
Fecha de publicación:
2013
Institución:
Universidad EIA .
Repositorio:
Repositorio EIA .
Idioma:
eng
OAI Identifier:
oai:repository.eia.edu.co:11190/520
Acceso en línea:
https://repository.eia.edu.co/handle/11190/520
Palabra clave:
RBI00110
TECNOLOGÍAS PARA LA SALUD
TECHNOLOGY IN HEALTH
ULTRASONICS - INSTRUMENTATION
ULTRASONIDO - INSTRUMENTACIÓN
MATLAB
ACOUSTIC FIELD SIMULATION
REPRESENTACIÓN DISCRETA
DISCRETE REPRESENTATION
ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCERS
SIMULACIÓN DEL CAMPO ACÚSTICO
TRANSDUCTORES DE ULTRASONIDO
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openAccess
License
Derechos Reservados - Universidad EIA, 2020
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Summary:The study of the acoustic field generated by an ultrasonic transducer is fundamental to its construction and characterization, because it defines how it will behave before being built. It also defines whether it is feasible or not, for the application to which it was designed. It can also lead to modifications to the project so it behaves as expected. In this work, a software was implemented in MATLAB®, for computational simulation of acoustic fields generated by ultrasonic transducers of different configurations. Two models were used, Zemanek and Stepanishen. Transducers with focus and apodization and transmission medium with attenuation may also be simulated. For the simulation of Zemanek’s model, the mathematical method of discretization was used. The Stepanishen’s model used an analytical solution for the impulse response. The developed programs were aggregated into a computer package, named FSIM, and a graphic interface was created. The user can choose among some of the transducer configurations and simulation parameters already implemented. FSIM has a modular architecture and allows further simulation modules to be added. The simulations were validated comparing results to those previously published in classical papers from Zemanek, and from Lockwood and Willete, in addition to prior results from research studies conducted at the Biomedical Engineering Department of the School of Electrical and Computing Engineering at the Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP).