Study on Sound Field of High Intensity Focused Ultrasound with Short Focal Length

Abstract:

In this paper, numerical simulation of sound field with short focal length is performed, which is based on spheroidal beam equation (SBE) in frequency-domain for transducer with a wide aperture angle. And we made some experiments on vitro bovine liver to explore the characteristic of sound pressure and-3dB sound focal region at different positions of incident interface. It is found that with a fixed curvature radius if the focal length is shorter under the skin, the amplitude of sound pressure will be higher on the focus and the shape of-3dB sound focal region will be smaller. When the incident interface is in the range of planar wave, nonlinear effect is strong and the focus will change with the interface position. Especially when the position is near to transition location between planar wave and spheroidal wave, the nonlinear effect is lowered. While the focus is closer to the sound source so as to burn the scarfskin easily. When the interface is in the range of spheroidal wave, the focus position changes little but the side lobe effect due to refraction is obvious. And the focusing performance of transducer will be affected. The experimental results validate the accuracy of theoretical results. It is concluded that the position of incident interface should be selected reasonably with short focal length in the treatment of superficial tissue.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 195-196)
• Pages: 364-369
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.195-196.364
• Online since: August 2012
• Authors: Jin Hua Zhao, Li Li Yu, Chun Hui, Bin Feng Huang, Chao Li, Quan Zhou Zhao
• Keywords: High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU), Short Focal Length, Sound Field, Spheroidal Beam Equation (SBE)

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