title: Sound fields for coded excitations in water and tissue: experimental approach.
abstract: Coded ultrasonography is intensively studied in many laboratories due to its remarkable properties, particularly increased penetration depth and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). However, no data on the spatial behavior of the pressure field generated by coded bursts transmissions in the tissue were yet reported. This paper reports the results of investigations of the field structure in water, in degassed beef liver and in pork tissue using four different excitations signals, two and 16 periods sine bursts and sinusoidal sequences with phase modulation using 13-bits Barker code and 16-bits Golay complementary codes. The results of measured pressure field distributions before and after compression were compared with those recorded using short pulse excitation.
authors.affiliation: Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Ultrasonic Department, Swietokrzyska 21, 00-049 Warsaw, Poland. jlitn@ippt.gov.pl
authors.forename: Jerzy
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Litniewski
authors.forename: Andrzej
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Nowicki
authors.forename: Ziemowit
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Klimonda
authors.forename: Marcin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lewandowski
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007089:Image Enhancement; D019047:Phantoms, Imaging; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted; D012984:Software; D014463:Ultrasonography; D014867:Water
chemical_list: D014867:Water