TIME-REVERSAL ACOUSTIC FOCUSING SYSTEM AS A VIRTUAL RANDOM PHASED ARRAYстатья
Статья опубликована в высокорейтинговом журнале
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Местоположение издательства:Piscataway, NJ, United States
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Аннотация:Abstract—This paper compares the performance of two different
systems for dynamic focusing of ultrasonic waves: conventional
2-D phased arrays (PA) and a focusing system based
on the principles of time-reversed acoustics (TRA). Focused
ultrasound fields obtained in the experiments with the TRA
focusing system (TRA FS), which employs a liquid-filled reverberator
with 4 piezotransducers attached to its wall, are compared
with the focused fields obtained by mathematical simulation
of PAs comprised from several tens to several hundreds
of elements distributed randomly on the array surface. The
experimental and simulated focusing systems had the same
aperture and operated at a frequency centered about 600 kHz.
Experimental results demonstrated that the TRA FS with a
small number of channels can produce complex focused patterns
and can steer them with efficiency comparable to that
of a PA with hundreds of elements. It is shown that the TRA
FS can be realized using an extremely simple means, such as
a reverberator made of a water-filled plastic bottle with just a
few piezotransducers attached to its walls.