Increasing the transmission efficiency of transcranial ultrasound using a dual-mode conversion technique based on Lamb waves
- Authors
- Kang, Ki Chang; Kim, Young Hun; Kim, Jeong Nyeon; Kabir, Minoo; Zhang, Yichi; Ghanouni, Pejman; Park, Kwan Kyu; Firouzi, Kamyar; Khuri-Yakub, Burtus T.
- Issue Date
- Mar-2022
- Publisher
- Acoustical Society of America
- Citation
- Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, v.151, no.3, pp.2159 - 2170
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- SCIE
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- Journal Title
- Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
- Volume
- 151
- Number
- 3
- Start Page
- 2159
- End Page
- 2170
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/hanyang/handle/2021.sw.hanyang/139175
- DOI
- 10.1121/10.0009849
- ISSN
- 0001-4966
- Abstract
- Transcranial focused ultrasound (FUS) is a noninvasive treatment for brain tumors and neuromodulation. Based on normal incidence, conventional FUS techniques use a focused or an array of ultrasonic transducers to overcome the attenuation and absorption of ultrasound in the skull; however, this remains the main limitation of using FUS. A dual-mode conversion technique based on Lamb waves is proposed to achieve high transmission efficiency. This concept was validated using the finite element analysis (FEA) and experiments based on changes in the incident angle. Aluminum, plexiglass, and a human skull were used as materials with different attenuations. The transmission loss was calculated for each material, and the results were compared with the reflectance function of the Lamb waves. Oblique incidence based on dual-mode conversion exhibited a better transmission efficiency than that of a normal incidence for all of the specimens. The total transmission losses for the materials were 13.7, 15.46, and 3.91 dB less than those associated with the normal incidence. A wedge transducer was designed and fabricated to implement the proposed method. The results demonstrated the potential applicability of the dual-mode conversion technique for the human skull.
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