Laser-induced ultrasound transmitters for large-volume ultrasound tomography

D. Thompson; J.R. Nagel; D. B. Gasteau; S. Manohar

doi:10.1016/j.pacs.2021.100312

Laser-induced ultrasound transmitters for large-volume ultrasound tomography

D. Thompson^*
, J.R. Nagel
, D. B. Gasteau
, S. Manohar

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

We present a protocol for the design, fabrication and characterisation of laser-induced ultrasound transmitters with a specific, user-defined frequency response for the purpose of ultrasound tomography of large-volume biomedical samples. Using an analytic solution to the photoacoustic equation and measurements of the optical and acoustic properties of the materials used in the transmitters, we arrive at a required mixture of carbon black and polydimethylsiloxane to achieve the desired frequency response. After an in-depth explanation of the fabrication and characterisation approaches we show the performance of the fabricated transmitter, which has a centre frequency of 0.9 MHz, 200% bandwidth and 45.8^∘ opening angle, multi-kPa pressures over a large depth range in water.

Original language	English
Article number	100312
Journal	Photoacoustics
Volume	25
Early online date	10 Nov 2021
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pacs.2021.100312
Publication status	Published - Mar 2022

Keywords

Environmental applications of photoacoustics/laser ultrasound
Industrial
NDE
New transducers
UT-Hybrid-D

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