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Development of calibration techniques for ultrasonic hydrophone probes in the frequency range from 1 to 100 MHz
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Development of calibration techniques for ultrasonic hydrophone probes in the frequency range from 1 to 100 MHz

S. Umchid, R. Gopinath, K. Srinivasan, P.A. Lewin, A.S. Daryoush, L. Bansal and M. El-Sherif
Ultrasonics, v 49(3), pp 306-311
2009
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ultras.2008.09.011
PMID: 19110289
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https://europepmc.org/articles/pmc2677298View
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Abstract

Fiber optic hydrophone probe Hydrophone calibration Nonlinear propagation Piezoelectric polymer ultrasound hydrophone probes Spatial averaging
The primary objective of this work was to develop and optimize the calibration techniques for ultrasonic hydrophone probes used in acoustic field measurements up to 100 MHz. A dependable, 100 MHz calibration method was necessary to examine the behavior of a sub-millimeter spatial resolution fiber optic (FO) sensor and assess the need for such a sensor as an alternative tool for high frequency characterization of ultrasound fields. Also, it was of interest to investigate the feasibility of using FO probes in high intensity fields such as those employed in HIFU (high intensity focused ultrasound) applications. In addition to the development and validation of a novel, 100 MHz calibration technique the innovative elements of this research include implementation and testing of a prototype FO sensor with an active diameter of about 10 μm that exhibits uniform sensitivity over the considered frequency range and does not require any spatial averaging corrections up to about 75 MHz. The results of the calibration measurements are presented and it is shown that the optimized calibration technique allows the sensitivity of the hydrophone probes to be determined as a virtually continuous function of frequency and is also well suited to verify the uniformity of the FO sensor frequency response. As anticipated, the overall uncertainty of the calibration was dependent on frequency and determined to be about ±12% (±1 dB) up to 40 MHz, ±20% (±1.5 dB) from 40 to 60 MHz and ±25% (±2 dB) from 60 to 100 MHz. The outcome of this research indicates that once fully developed and calibrated, the combined acousto-optic system will constitute a universal reference tool in the wide, 100 MHz bandwidth.

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