Investigations of compact self focusing transducers using stacked piezoelectric elements for strong sound pulses in therapy

T Dreyer, W Krauss, E Bauer… - 2000 IEEE Ultrasonics …, 2000 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A new design for self-focusing piezoelectric transducers used in therapy is presented.
Common transducers have large dimensions with diameters up to 500 mm in order to …

Experimental identification of a piezoelectric material for high impulse pressure wave applications

JP Sferruzza, A Birer, A Matias, Y Theillère… - Sensors and Actuators A …, 2001 - Elsevier
Recently, the instruments commonly used in urology have been organized in modules which
are designed specially for use with a multi-purpose “urology table”. In order to fit into this …

Numerical simulation of the electro-acoustical response of a transducer excited by a time-varying electrical circuit

JP Sferruzza, F Chavrier, A Birer… - IEEE transactions on …, 2002 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Existing methods for the modeling of piezoelectric transducer response are generally
frequency domain-based. The major disadvantage of this type of model is that they cannot …

Modeling of piezoceramic composite transducer structures generating strong sound pulses in therapy

T Dreyer, RE Riedlinger - 2001 IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium …, 2001 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In order to simulate composite piezoelectric structures, which are applied in self-focusing
transducers for therapy, a 3-D modeling approach is presented here. Assuming a plane and …