Acoustic window

Consider the configuration of Fig. 7. Ffere the sonochemical vessel is immersed in a tank packed in ice. The transducer is mounted several inches from the open end of the vessel, which is covered by an acoustical window. This window allows the ultrasonic energy to enter the vessel, while preventing the mixing of the tank water (which contains the waste heat of the transducer) with the solution under test. Thus, the transducer waste heat is confined to the tank water, and has no opportunity to enter the treatment... 

Ultrasound imaging is a non-invasive, portable and relatively inexpensive imaging modality, which is used extensively in the clinic. An ultrasound transducer (also called scanhead) sends short pulses of a high-frequency sound wave (1-10 MHz) into the body. At interfaces between two types of tissue, the wave will be refracted and part of the sound wave is reflected back due to Snells law. How much is reflected depends on the densities of the respective tissues, and thus the speed of the sound wave within the different tissues. In addition, parts of the sound wave are also backscattered from small structures at tissue boundaries or within the tissue. High-frequency sound waves propagate weU through soft tissue and fluids, but they are more or less stopped by air or bone. In clinical practice, this limitation is referred to as an acoustic window . The transducer not only sends the wave into the body but also receives part of the reflected and/or backscattered wave, also named echo . In clinical practice, ultrasound is used in a... 

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Currently, TDI is the most validated measure of LV dyssynchrony out of all the echo-derived parameters summarized in Table 11.2. The limitations of all the echo-derived parameters include operator dependence, inability to get good acoustic windows in some patients, signal to noise ratio, increased time consumption and lack of reproducibility of some parameters. Nevertheless, echo remains a very attractive approach to assess dyssynchrony mainly because it is so readily accessible at most hospitals. 

Image quality. Poor acoustic windows can result in poor visnalization of the left ventricular endocardial border, making qnantitation of LVEF difficult or inaccurate this can happen in np to 10% of patients (Christian et al. 2012). 

Acoustic Window Fluid-filled structure, such as the urinary bladder, which aids in visualization of structures beneath it. 

Several modifications to the basic spot poled membrane design have been developed to try to circumvent the damage problem. In one approach, unmetallized PVDF film was spot poled and mounted in an enclosed chamber with an acoustic window. The chamber was filled with either a dielectric fluid [65,66] or low resistivity electrolyte [67,68]. Electrodes were located in the chamber away from the film, close enough to collect the pressure-induced charge, via capacitive coupling in the dielectric fluid case, but far enough away to minimize damage from the shock waves. 

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