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Modelling Nonlinear Ultrasound Propagation in Absorbing Media using the k-Wave Toolbox: Experimental Validation
The simulation of nonlinear ultrasound waves in biological tissue has a number of important applications. However, this is a computationally intensive task due to the large domain sizes required for many problems of practical interest. Recently, an efficient full-wave nonlinear ultrasound model was developed and released as part of the open source k-Wave Toolbox. Here, this model is validated using a series of experimental measurements made with a linear diagnostic ultrasound probe and a membrane hydrophone. Measurements were performed in both deionised water and olive oil, the latter exhibiting power law absorption characteristics similar to human tissue. Steering angles of 0° and 20° were also tested, with propagation distances on the order of hundreds of acoustic wavelengths. The simulated and experimental results show a close agreement in both the time and frequency domains. These results demonstrate the quantitative validity of performing nonlinear ultrasound simulations using the k-Wave toolbox.
@inproceedings{BUT192864,
author="WANG, K. and TEOH, E. and JAROŠ, J. and TREEBY, B.",
title="Modelling Nonlinear Ultrasound Propagation in Absorbing Media using the k-Wave Toolbox: Experimental Validation",
booktitle="IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, IUS",
year="2012",
pages="523--526",
publisher="Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers",
address="Dresden",
doi="10.1109/ULTSYM.2012.0130",
isbn="978-1-4673-4561-3",
url="http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6562209/"
}