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Physics Quiz 3.2
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Aperture | transducer size, foot print size |
| curved element | as the element is curved more, the focus moves closer to the transducer and becomes tighter |
| side lobes | some intensities are not contained within the sound sound beam and they escape out of the sides and cause artifacts |
| diffraction | from a small point source (transducer), sound goes out in all directions |
| Huygens principle | each small portion of the surface of a transducer may be considered as a separate source |
| beam diameter | -as the sound travels through the near zone, the diameter decreases, as the sound travels through the far zone the diameter increases -depends on: wavelength(frequency), element diameter and distance from element |
| far zone | region that lies beyond a distance of one near zone length, beam diverges |
| near zone | region that extends from the element out to a distance of one near zone length, beam converges |
| near zone length | depends on size and frequency of the element increases with increasing frequency and diameter squared |
| focal zone | the distance between equal beam widths (focus), the zone between the near zone and far zone, the beam is the narrowest, the best resolution occurs in this zone |
| focal length | distance from the transducer to the center of the focal region (short, medium, long) |
| beam formation | combining the sound coming from all point sources |
| sound beams | with a disc element the beam widths within the scan plane and perpendicular to it are equal to the beam diameter |
| focusing | curved transducer element (internal focusing) curved reflector lens phased array can only be accomplished in the near zone |