Diffraction, attenuation, and source corrections for nonlinear Rayleigh wave ultrasonic measurements

Optical Generation of Tone-burst Rayleigh Surface Waves for Nonlinear Ultrasonic Measurements

Scattering error corrections for in situ absorption and attenuation measurements.

Monte Carlo simulations are used to establish a weighting function that describes the collection of angular scattering for the WETLabs AC-9 reflecting tube absorption meter. The equivalent weighting function for the AC-9 attenuation sensor is found to be well approximated by a binary step function with photons scattered between zero and the collection half-width angle contributing to the scatte...

Elastic Wave Diffraction of a Piston Source and Its Effect on Attenuation Measurement

The radiation of an elastic wave field from a plane piston source is formulated using the representation theorem, in which the Green's function for an elastic half space is employed. On the basis of this formulation, we derive the radiated elastic wave field for both compressional and shear wave sources. We study the diffraction of elastic waves incident on a receiver that is coaxially aligned ...

Determination of ultrasonic parameters based on attenuation and dispersion measurements.

In the measurement of acoustic attenuation that obeys a power-low alpha = beta f, the traditional through-transmission method uses only the amplitude information of the recorded pulses to determine the two parameters, beta and n. In this paper, we propose a new method that utilizes both the amplitude and phase information of the pulses to determine the two parameters. According to this method, ...

Interlaboratory comparison of ultrasonic attenuation and speed measurements.

A set of test samples, all containing ultrasonically equivalent tissue-mimicking material, was produced and measurements of ultrasonic speed and ultrasonic attenuation coefficients were made at seven laboratories using various techniques. The ultrasonic speed values agree well with one another, having a spread of about 0.3 per cent; thus, speed values for tissue parenchyma appearing in the lite...