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Article Dans Une Revue IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control Année : 2012

Non-Planar Pad-Printed Thick-Film Focused High-Frequency Ultrasonic Transducers for Imaging and Therapeutic Applications

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Pad-printed thick-film transducers have been shown to be an interesting alternative to lapped bulk piezoceramics, because the film is deposited with the required thickness, size, and geometry, thus avoiding any subsequent machining to achieve geometrical focusing. Their electromechanical properties are close to those of bulk ceramics with similar composition despite having a higher porosity. In this paper, pad-printed high-frequency transducers based on a low-loss piezoceramic composition are designed and fabricated. High-porosity ceramic cylinders with a spherical top surface are used as the backing substrate. The transducers are characterized in view of imaging applications and their imaging capabilities are evaluated with phantoms containing spherical inclusions and in different biological tissues. In addition, the transducers are evaluated for their capability to produce high-acoustic intensities at frequencies around 20 MHz. High-intensity measurements, obtained with a calibrated hydrophone, show that transducer performance is promising for applications that would require the same device to be used for imaging and for therapy. Nevertheless, the transducer design can be improved, and simulation studies are performed to find a better compromise between low-power and high-power performance. The size, geometry, and constitutive materials of optimized configurations are proposed and their feasibility is discussed.

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hal-01814888 , version 1 (13-06-2018)

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Marc Lethiecq, Rasmus Lou-Moeller, Jeffrey A. Ketterling, Franck Levassort, Louis Pascal Tran-Huu-Hue, et al.. Non-Planar Pad-Printed Thick-Film Focused High-Frequency Ultrasonic Transducers for Imaging and Therapeutic Applications. IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control, 2012, 59 (9), pp.1976-1982. ⟨10.1109/TUFFC.2012.2416⟩. ⟨hal-01814888⟩
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