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Science & Technology, Technology, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, Acoustics, Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology, ACOUSTIC FIELDS, PROPAGATION

Abstract:

An extension to the angular spectrum approach for modelling pressure fields of a cylindrically-curved array transducer is described in this paper. The proposed technique is based on representing the curved transducer surface as a set of planar elements whose contributions are combined at a selected intermediate plane from which the field is further propagated using the conventional angular spectrum approach. The accuracy of the proposed technique is validated through comparison with Field II simulations.