The main objective of this master’s thesis is to investigate the possibility of applying spatially-filtered continuous-wave acoustic tomography to the detection of breast cancer. A continuous acoustic wave is transmitted through the specimen in this tomographic imaging method. Any scattered waves that do not positively contribute to the projection are filtered out using an aperture. There is evidence to suggest that cancerous lesions in the breast have a higher speed of sound than surrounding tissues. This imaging method produces two tomograms of the specimen simultaneously: one showing the internal speed of sound, and the other showing the internal acoustic attenuation coefficient. There is the possibility for a third imaging modality, acoustic dispersion tomography, to be applied to this imaging method. Two proof-of-concept prototype spatially-filtered continuous-wave acoustic tomography scanners were designed and built: one that uses a collimated beam to interrogate the specimen, and another that uses a confocal beam. A least-squares tomographic reconstruction algorithm was chosen to reconstruct the tomograms this method creates. A prostate phantom and a breast phantom were imaged with the confocal tomographic scanner. The tomograms of the prostate phantom show two 1 cm lesions which are consistent with information from the phantom manufacturer. Further work is required to properly validate the speed of sound and acoustic attenuation measurements this method produces. / Graduate

Thesis (M.S.)--Brigham Young University. Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 99-106).

To date electric pianos and samplers tend to concentrate on authenticity in terms of temporal and spectral aspects of sound. However, they barely recreate the original sound radiation characteristics, which contribute to the perception of width and depth, vividness and voice separation, especially for instrumentalists, who are located near the instrument. To achieve this, a number of sound field measurement and synthesis techniques need to be applied and adequately combined. In this paper we present the theoretic foundation to combine so far isolated and fragmented sound field analysis and synthesis methods to realize a radiation keyboard, an electric harpsichord that approximates the sound of a real harpsichord precisely in time, frequency, and space domain. Potential applications for such a radiation keyboard are conservation of historic musical instruments, music performance, and psychoacoustic measurements for instrument and synthesizer building and for studies of music perception, cognition, and embodiment.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 1979. / Bibliography: leaves 146-150. / by James Francis Scheimer. / Ph.D.

Focused ultrasound (FUS) is an emerging technology, and it plays an essential role in clinical and contactless acoustic energy transfer applications. These applications have critical criteria for the acoustic pressure level, the creation of complex pressure patterns, spatial management of the complicated acoustic field, and the degree of nonlinear waveform distortion at the focal areas, which have not been met to date. This dissertation focuses on introducing experimentally validated novel numerical approaches, optimization algorithms, and experimental techniques to fill existing knowledge gaps and enhance the functionality of holographic acoustic lenses (HALs) with an emphasis on applications related to biomedical-focused ultrasound and ultrasonic energy transfer. This dissertation also aims to investigate the dynamics of nonlinear acoustic beam shaping in engineered HALs. First, We will introduce 3D-printed metallic acoustic holographic mirrors for precise spatial manipulation of reflected ultrasonic waves. Optimization algorithms and experimental validations are presented for applications like contactless acoustic energy transfer. Furthermore, a portion of the present work focuses on designing holographic lenses in strongly heterogeneous media for ultrasound focusing and skull aberration compensation in transcranial-focused ultrasound. To this end, we collaborated with the Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics Department as well as Fralin Biomedical Research Institute to implement acoustic lenses in transcranial neuromodulation, targeting to improve the quality of life for patients with brain disease by minimizing the treatment time and optimizing the ultrasonic energy into the region of interest. We will also delve into the nonlinear regime for High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) applications, this study is structured under three objectives: (1) establishing nonlinear acoustic-elastodynamics models to represent the dynamics of holographic lenses under low- to high-intensity acoustic fields; (2) validating and leveraging the resulting models for high-fidelity lens designs used in generating specified nonlinear ultrasonic fields of complex spatial distribution; (3) exploiting new physical phenomena in acoustic holography. The performed research in this dissertation yields experimentally proven mathematical frameworks for extending the functionality of holographic lenses, especially in transcranial-focused ultrasound and nonlinear wavefront shaping, advancing knowledge in the burgeoning field of the inverse issue of nonlinear acoustics, which has remained underdeveloped for many years. / Doctor of Philosophy / Ultrasonic waves are sound waves that have frequencies higher than the upper audible limit of human hearing. The versatility and non-invasive nature of ultrasonic waves make them a valuable tool in numerous scientific, medical, and industrial applications. In healthcare, ultrasonic waves are employed in diagnostic imaging techniques, such as ultrasound scans, to create images of internal body structures. Ultrasonic waves are also used for non-destructive testing (NDT) of materials, detecting flaws or cracks within structures without causing any damage. Furthermore, this technology finds applications in the field of material science for the manipulation of particles and in biomedical research for drug delivery systems. Focused ultrasound sound is an emerging non-invasive therapeutic modality that uses focused ultrasound waves to target tissue within the body without damaging the surrounding tissue. This technology allows for precise delivery of ultrasound energy to a specific region, where it can induce various desired therapeutic effects depending on the targeting location and parameters. Therapeutic focused ultrasound has the advantage of being non-invasive, reducing the risks and recovery time associated with traditional surgery. It can be precisely controlled and monitored in real-time with imaging techniques such as ultrasound or MRI, ensuring the targeted treatment of pathological tissues while sparing healthy ones. Applications of therapeutic are broad and include tumor ablation, facilitation of drug delivery across the blood-brain barrier, relief of chronic pain, and treatment of essential tremor and other neurological disorders. The domain of therapeutic focused ultrasound is continually advancing, driven by research that seeks to extend its applications. Recent developments in acoustic engineering and 3D printing have led to the creation of acoustic holograms, or holographic acoustic lenses, which allow for more refined control over the spatial structure of the acoustic field. These technological advancements hold the promise of enhancing FUS by improving the accuracy of acoustic field localization and providing a more cost-effective solution compared to conventional systems like phased array transducers. However, the accuracy and applicability of existing models and techniques are constrained by assumptions, including the uniformity of the propagation medium and the linearity of the acoustic field, which limits the functionality and restricts the potential applications of acoustic holograms. In this dissertation, we present novel numerical techniques, algorithms, and proof-of-concept experiments to fill those knowledge gaps and expand the functionality of acoustic holograms in crucial applications.

L’ Holographie acoustique de champ proche (NAH) est une méthode d’imagerie acoustique robuste, mais son application en écoulement peut être limitée par l’utilisation de mesures intrusives de pression ou de vitesse acoustique. Dans cette étude, une procédure holographique applicable en écoulement utilisant des mesures de vitesse non-intrusives est proposée. Cette méthode est basée sur le théorème intégral de Kirchhoff-Helmholtz convecté. La fonction de Green convectée est alors utilisée pour déterminer des propagateurs spatiaux convectés définis dans l’espace réel et incluant l’effet d’un écoulement subsonique uniforme. Les transformées de Fourier discrètes de ces propagateurs permettent alors d’évaluer les champs acoustiques à partir de la mesure du champ de pression ou de vitesse acoustique normale. Le but étant de développer une méthode de caractérisation de sources aéroacoustiques à partir de mesures de vitesse non-intrusives, cette étude se concentre essentiellement sur les propagateurs réels convectés basés sur la mesure de vitesse acoustique. Afin de valider cette procédure,des simulations ont été menées dans le cas de combinaisons de sources monopolaires et dipolaires convectées corrélées ou non. La procédure holographique développée donne de bons résultats par comparaison aux champs acoustiques théoriques. Une comparaison des résultats obtenus par les propagateurs convectés réels, développés dans cette thèse, avec ceux obtenus par leurs formes spectrales, développés par Kwon et al. fin 2010 pour des mesures de pression acoustique, montre l’intérêt d’utiliser la forme réelle pour la reconstruction de la pression acoustique à partir de la mesure de vitesse acoustique normale. L’efficacité de la procédure développée est confirmée par une campagne de mesure en soufflerie avec un haut-parleur affleurant rayonnant au sein d’un écoulement à Mach 0.22, et des mesures non-intrusives effectuées par Vélocimétrie Laser Doppler (LDV). Les champs de vitesse acoustique utilisés pour la procédure holographique sont dans ce cas extraits des mesures LDV par corrélation avec un microphone de référence. La faisabilité de prendre en compte des variations de l’écoulement dans la direction de reconstruction holographique est également vérifiée. / Nearfield Acoustic Holography (NAH) is a powerful acoustic imaging method but its application in flow can be limited by intrusive measurements of acoustic pressure or velocity. In this work, a moving fluid medium NAH procedure using non-intrusive velocity measurements is proposed. This method is based on the convective Kirchhoff-Helmholtz integral formula. The convective Green’s function is then used to derive convective realspace propagators including uniform subsonic airflow effects. Discrete Fourier transforms of these propagators allow then the assessment of acoustic fields from acoustic pressure or normal acoustic velocity measurements. As the aim is to derive an aeroacoustic sources characterisation method from non-inrusive velocity measurements, this study is especially focused on real convective velocity-based propagators. In order to validate this procedure, simulations in the case of combinations of monopolar and dipolar sources correlated or not, radiating invarious uniform subsonic flows, have been performed. NAH provides very favorable results when compared to the theoretical fields. A comparison of results obtained by real convective propagators, developed in this work, and those obtained by the spectral ones, developed by Kwon et al. at the end of 2010 for acoustic pressure measurements, shows the interest of using the real-form for NAH acoustic pressure reconstruction from normal acoustic velocity measurements. The efficiency of the developed procedure is confirmed by a wind tunnel campaign with a flush-mounted loudspeaker radiating in a flow at Mach 0.22 and non-intrusive Laser Doppler Velocimetry (LDV) measurements. Acoustic velocity fields used for the NAH procedure are in this case extracted from LDV measurements by correlation with a reference microphone. The feasibility of taking into account mean flow variations in the direction of NAH reconstruction is also checked.

Orientador: Jose Maria Campos dos Santos / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Mecanica / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-08T16:32:33Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Moraes_ElsonCesar_M.pdf: 10024919 bytes, checksum: 5229531ae57fbedd477ddafcf581d5b2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006 / Resumo: Neste trabalho apresenta-se uma implementação e avaliação experimental da grandeza acustica denominada de Intensidade Acustica Supersonica (IAS), a qual permite determinar a parcela da intensidade acustica de uma fonte sonora que sera radiada para o campo distante. Tal grandeza permite quantificar de forma mais precisa a eficiencia de radiação ou não de radiadores acusticos na solução dos problemas de vibroacustica. A IAS origina-se da Holografia Acustica de Campo Proximo (Nearfield Acoustic Holography - NAH) e tem por objetivo identificar as regiões de uma fonte de ru?do que contribuem para a potencia sonora radiada para o campo distante (supersonica) filtrando, consequentemente, a parcela referente as ondas sonoras recirculantes e evanescentes (subsonicas). O trabalho apresenta uma breve revisão teorica dos fundamentos da holografia acustica plana usando a transformada de Fourier e sua extensão para obtenção da Intensidade Acustica Supersonica. Com base no NAH para sistemas em coordenadas Cartesiano (holografia plana) implementou-se em linguagem MatLab um algoritmo do calculo da IAS e simulações em estrutura plana do tipo placa foram realizadas. Os resultados simulados foram verificados atraves de medições experimentais em uma placa real com as mesmas propriedades, dimensões, condições iniciais e de contorno. Os resultados obtidos são analisados e discutidos / Abstract: This work presents an experimental implementation and evaluation of the acoustic parameter named Supersonic Acoustic Intensity (SAI) which permits determining the part of the acoustic intensity of sound source that will be radiate to farfield. This parameter permits quantify precisely the radiation efficiency or acoustic radiator to solve the vibroacoustic problems. SAI had origin from Nearfield Acoustic Holography (NAH) it has as objective identify the regions of the sound source that contribute to the sound power radiated to the far field (supersonic) filtered out as a result the part of the sound recirculating and evanescence waves (subsonic). The work presents a brief theoretical review of the planar acoustic holography fundaments using the Fourier Transformed and its extension to obtain the supersonic acoustic intensity. With base in the NAH for coordinates systems (planar holography) it was implemented in MatLab language an algorithm from the SAI calculus and simulation in planar structure type plate were achieved. The simulated results were verified through experimental measurements in a realistic plate with the same properties, dimension, initial conditions and boundaries. The results obtained are analyzed and discussed. / Mestrado / Mecanica dos Sólidos e Projeto Mecanico / Mestre em Engenharia Mecânica

<p dir="ltr">Acoustic holography is a powerful tool in the visualization of sound fields and sound sources. It provides engineers and researchers clear insights into sound fields as well as their sound sources. Some widely-used methods include Nearfield Acoustical Holography (NAH), Statistically Optimized Nearfield Acoustic Holography (SONAH) and the Equivalent Source Method (ESM). SONAH and ESM were developed specifically to tackle the intrinsic deficiency of the Fourier-based NAH which requires that the sound field fall to negligible levels at the edges of the measurement aperture, a requirement rarely met in practice. Besides the aforementioned methods, the Inverse Boundary Element Method (IBEM) can be used, given sufficient measurements and computational resources. As useful as they are in visualizing the sound field, none of these methods can provide direct guidance on potential design modifications of the observed structure in order to unequivocally reduce sound power radiation. Acoustic radiation mode analysis has previously been primarily associated with active noise control applications. Since the radiation modes radiate sound power independently, it is only necessary to modify the surface vibration patterns so that they do not couple well with the radiation modes in order to guarantee a reduction of the radiated sound power. Since the radiation modes are orthogonal and complete, they can be used as the basis functions through which the source surface vibration can be described. Therefore, an acoustic holography method based on the acoustic radiation modes will enable the sound power ranking of the modal components of the surface vibration pattern, and in turn, point out the component(s) which should be targeted in order to reduce the overall sound power. However, use of the acoustic radiation modes in the inverse procedure comes with a price: the detailed geometry of the object to be measured must be obtained, thus enabling the calculation of acoustic radiation modes and the modal pressures. But this is not an issue for original equipment manufacturers given that almost all prototypes are now designed with CAD, as is the case with the engine example to be described next.</p><p dir="ltr">In modern engine design, downsizing and reducing weight while still providing an increased amount of power has been a general trend in recent decades. Traditionally, an engine design with superior NVH performance usually comes with a heavier, thus sturdier structure. Therefore, modern engine design requires that NVH be considered in the very early design stage to avoid modifications of engine structures at the last minute, when very few changes can be made. NVH design optimization of engine components has become more practical due to the development of computer software and hardware. However, there is still a need for smarter algorithms to draw a direct relationship between the design and the radiated sound power. At the moment, techniques based on modal acoustic transfer vectors (MATVs) have gained popularity in design optimization for their good performance in sound pressure prediction. Since MATVs are derived based on structural modes, they are not independent with respect to radiated sound power. In contrast, as noted, acoustic radiation modes are an orthogonal set of velocity distributions on the structure’s surface that contribute to the radiated sound power independently. As a result, it is beneficial to describe structural vibration in terms of acoustic radiation modes in order to identify the velocity distributions that contribute the majority of the radiated sound power. Measures can then be taken to modify the identified vibration patterns to reduce their magnitudes, which will in turn result in an unequivocal reduction of the radiated sound power. A workflow of the structural optimization procedure is proposed in this dissertation.</p><p dir="ltr">While acoustic radiation modes have great efficiencies in describing radiated acoustic power, the computation of acoustic radiation modes can be time consuming. In the last chapter of this thesis, a novel way of calculating acoustic radiation modes is proposed, which differs from the traditional singular value decomposition of the power radiation resistance matrix, and which is more efficient than previously proposed procedures. </p><p><br></p>

A systematic research on aeroacoustics conducted around the world for the last few decades has revealed various inherent characteristics of the jet noise radiation. However, a lot more needs to be done for the theoretical as well as experimental predictions of various jet noise features based on actual flow details. The work reported in the present thesis is an attempt in this direction. A critical study of existing literature on jet noise shows that none of the general wave equations lends itself easily for predictions of all the jet noise features. It is shown that while LighthilPs classical acoustic analogy approach, with some reasonable approximations, can be used to yield most of the information needed by the engineers, the convected wave equations of Phillips and Lilley are required to study the acoustic radiation in what has come to be known as "Refraction valley" or "Cone of relative silence". The characteristics of the sound field of underexpanded cold jet impingement flows were studied by measuring the noise emanating from two convergent nozzles of throat diameter 2.5 mm and 5 mm each and a convergent - divergent nozzle of exit diameter of 6.49 mm, when the jet impinges on a flat plate kept perpendicular to the direction of the jet. The measurements were conducted upstream of the nozzle over an extensive envelope of jet operating conditions such as chamber stagnation pressure, mass flow rate through the nozzle and diameter of the nozzle. The source strength at the jet boundary was obtained by measuring acoustic pressure amplitude close to the jet contour assuming it as locally cylindrical. Particular attention was focussed on backward projection of the sound field on to a cylindrical surface. This is the application of acoustic holography to study the sound radiation in the audio frequency region. With the help of FFT and software developed for this purpose, the theoretical predictions using data from several cylindrical surfaces were compared. A detailed analysis of noise radiation from a cold sonic and supersonic free jet was also carried out. The experimental work involved the measurement of noise field from a 2.5 mm, 5 mm convergent and a convergent - divergent nozzle of exit diameter of 6.49 mm and area ratio 1.687 for designed Mach number of two. The experimental setup consisted essentially of a pressure chamber made of mild steel, designed to withstand 50 bar pressure. This chamber is a cylinder with dia 0.421 m and length 0.85 m. The nozzles were made of mild steel. Compressed air approximately at room temperature is supplied to the nozzle via a control valve. The measuring and recording instruments consists of B & K Microphones, Preamplifiers, Conditioning amplifier and a Mediator, which measure a Sound Pressure Level at a point. The nozzles were operated at pressure ratio upto 25 bar. The noise signal was processed through 12 channel data acquisition system. Acoustic pressure and SPL were" calculated using theoretical relations and software developed. Using this software Fast Fourier Transformations of raw signal was obtained from 20 Hz to 20 kHz. Also constant SPL contour graphs were obtained. Source strength distribution at the jet boundary has been obtained by the principle of acoustic holography. Experimental values are closely matching with the results obtained by acoustic holography. The percentage error for acoustic pressure and SPL were less than 12%. The experimental results were used to obtain the source distribution in terms of gross jet parameters.