The ultrasonic treatment of varicose veins uses high-intensity focused ultrasound, in which a blood vessel is contracted by converting acoustic energy into thermal energy. In this study, we propose a phantom of varicose veins that can be applied for the efficient evaluation of ultrasonic treatment in varicose veins. The proposed phantom consisted of glycerol base tissue equivalent material, ves...

The scattering and reflection of ultrasonic pulses is the basis for ultrasonic non-destructive testing techniques. However problems are encountered in the interpretation of experimental results in many systems especially those which have target dimensions of the order of a wavelength, where there are no analytical solutions. It is shown that the lack of an adequate analytical theory can be over...

The motivation behind developing the SimulUS beam model was as a tool for the rapid visualisation of ultrasonic fields generated by phased array transducers (both linear and matrix). However, it is possible to model single crystal transducers by defining a 1 by 1 matrix. The present work was carried out using the version released in December of 2005 and was part of a larger validation programme...

Guided wave detection using different fiber optic sensors and their applications in damage detection for composite laminates were systematically investigated and compared in this paper. Two types of fiber optic sensors, namely fiber Bragg gratings (FBG) and Doppler effect-based fiber optic (FOD) sensors, were addressed and guided wave detection systems were constructed for both types. Guided wa...

Ultrasonic guided waves are widely used to inspect and monitor the structural integrity of plates and plate-like structures, such as ship hulls and large storage-tank floors. Recently, ultrasonic guided waves have also been used to remove ice and fouling from ship hulls, wind-turbine blades and aeroplane wings. In these applications, the strength of the sound source must be high for scanning a ...

By crosscorrelating transmission recordings of acoustic or elastic wave fields at two points, one can retrieve the reflection response between these two points. This technique has previously been applied to measured elastic data using diffuse wave-field recordings. These recordings should be relatively very long. The retrieval can also be achieved by using deterministic transient sources with t...