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Thermal Dispersion Method for a Medical Ultrasonic Phased Array Transducer
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Lee, Wonseok (경북대학교 기계공학과) Roh, Yongrae (경북대학교 기계공학과)
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The Acoustical Society Of Korea 한국음향학회지 한국음향학회지 제34권 제3호 KCI Accredited Journals
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2015.1
Pages
210 - 218 (9page)

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When the driving voltage of an ultrasound transducer is increased to improve the quality of ultrasound images, heat is generated inside the transducer that can cause patient's skin burn and degradation of transducer performance. Hence, in this paper, a method to disperse the heat of the transducer has been studied. The phased array transducer having 3 MHz center frequency and 32 channels was selected for analyses of the thermal dispersion. First, mechanism of the heat generation was investigated in relation to the transducer operation through theoretical analysis, and material damping and sound pressure amplitude were confirmed to be influential on the heat generation. Further, we investigated the effects of the properties of the materials constituting the transducer on the thermal dispersion through finite element analysis. Based on the analysis results, we determined the thermal properties of the constituent materials that could facilitate the thermal dispersion inside the transducer. The determined thermal properties were applied to the finite element model, and the results showed that the maximum temperature at an acoustic lens contacting with a patient was decreased to 51 % of its initial value.

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