A steerable Doppler probe using unidirectional SAW transducer

Author

Matsunaka, T. ; Tabuchi, Y.

Volume

3

fYear

1994

fDate

Oct. 31 1994-Nov. 3 1994

Firstpage

1683

Abstract

A steerable Doppler probe using a unidirectional surface acoustic wave transducer with leaky wave is presented for application to the measurement of blood flow. The SAW transducer having the interdigital electrodes in a shape such as a circular-arc is fabricated on the PZT ceramics with dimensions 4.5 mm×4.0 mm. The pitch between the electrodes of the transducer becomes wider gradually toward their other edges. Resonance frequencies of the experimental SAW transducer, therefore, are changed from 3.5 MHz to 15 MHz along the circular-arc electrodes, and hence the steering angle of the acoustic beam for the transducer varies from -68 degrees to 20 degrees. The fluctuation in conversion efficiency of the transducer was within -3 dB at the frequencies in the range of 4~11 MHz, and the -3 dB acoustic beam radiation angle was about 8.5 degrees at the frequency of 7 MHz

Keywords

Doppler measurement; biomedical equipment; biomedical ultrasonics; blood flow measurement; interdigital transducers; ultrasonic transducers; 15 MHz; 3.5 MHz; 4 to 11 MHz; 4.0 mm; 4.5 mm; PZT; PZT ceramics; PbZrO3TiO3; acoustic beam; acoustic beam radiation angle; blood flow; circular-arc; circular-arc electrodes; conversion efficiency fluctuation; electrodes; interdigital electrodes; leaky wave; pitch; resonance frequencies; steerable Doppler probe; steering angle; unidirectional SAW transducer; unidirectional surface acoustic wave transducer; Biomedical acoustic imaging; Biomedical electrodes; Biomedical transducers; Blood flow measurement; Doppler measurements; Interdigital transducers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Ultrasonics Symposium, 1994. Proceedings., 1994 IEEE

Conference_Location

Cannes, France

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2012-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ULTSYM.1994.401914

Filename

401914