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The applications to medicine and biology of sound waves that have a frequency higher than the audible spectrum. Biomedical applications of ultrasound...



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Figure 1.Block diagram of a B-mode ultrasonic imaging system.
From Encyclopedia article 'Biomedical ultrasonics'
Figure 2.Ultrasonic transducer consisting of linear array of piezoelectric elements. (a) Cross section of array. (b) Electronic focusing and sweeping of a beam by a linear sequenced array (or simply linear array). Generation of beam indicated by the solid line is followed by that indicated by the broken line.
From Encyclopedia article 'Biomedical ultrasonics'
Figure 3.B-mode image of a fetus in the uterus
From Encyclopedia article 'Biomedical ultrasonics'