摘要
Acoustic nonlinearity paramcter B / A is a new important parameter in ultrasonic tissue characterization. In this paper, we present the nonlinear theory of a finite amplitude plane sound wave propagating in a layer medium by Burgers' equation and apply this analysis in the case of imaging with the second harmonic wave. A computer simulation of acoustic nonlinear parameter imaging was carried out from the second harmonic data in a conventional CT algorithm. The reconstructed imagcs were obtained by using filtered back projection algorithm. The tomography of acoustic nonlinear parameter for simple phantoms was reconstructed with quite good quality.
Acoustic nonlinearity paramcter B / A is a new important parameter in ultrasonic tissue characterization. In this paper, we present the nonlinear theory of a finite amplitude plane sound wave propagating in a layer medium by Burgers' equation and apply this analysis in the case of imaging with the second harmonic wave. A computer simulation of acoustic nonlinear parameter imaging was carried out from the second harmonic data in a conventional CT algorithm. The reconstructed imagcs were obtained by using filtered back projection algorithm. The tomography of acoustic nonlinear parameter for simple phantoms was reconstructed with quite good quality.
