Experimental Verification of Modeled Thermal Distribution Produced by a Piston Source in Physiotherapy Ultrasound

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(a) Setup to measure the phantom acoustic attenuation and wave velocity. (b) Container used for the measurements. The transducer holder is dismountable to fasten other transducers of different sizes. (c) Geometry for the computational modeling; the zoom of thermocouple tip just referred to the simulations for determining the effect of thermocouple insertion in acoustic and thermal distributions.

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