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I.S. EN 61102:1994

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MEASUREMENT AND CHARACTERISATION OF ULTRASONIC FIELDS USING HYDROPHONES IN THE FREQUENCY RANGE 0.5 MHZ TO 15 MHZ
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Hardcopy , PDF

Superseded date

07-01-2010

Language(s)

English

Published date

01-01-1994

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FOREWORD
INTRODUCTION
1 Scope
2 Normative references
3 Definitions
4 List of symbols
5 Measurement requirements
  5.1 Requirements for hydrophones and amplifiers
      5.1.1 General
      5.1.2 Sensitivity of a hydrophone
      5.1.3 Directional response of a hydrophone
      5.1.4 Effective radius of a hydrophone active element
      5.1.5 Choice of the size of a hydrophone active element
      5.1.6 Bandwidth
      5.1.7 Linearity
      5.1.8 Hydrophone signal amplifier
  5.2 Requirements for positioning systems and water
      baths
      5.2.1 Positioning systems
      5.2.2 Water bath
  5.3 Requirements for measurement systems
  5.4 Recommendations for ultrasonic equipment being
      characterized
6 Specification of performance for hydrophones and
  amplifiers
  6.1 Sensitivity
  6.2 Effective radius
  6.3 Hydrophone linearity
  6.4 Hydrophone amplifiers
7 Measurement procedures
  7.1 Preparation and alignment
      7.1.1 Preparation
      7.1.2 Aligning a hydrophone
      7.1.3 Aligning an ultrasonic transducer and hydrophone
8 Beam characterisation
  8.1 Primary pressure parameters
      8.1.1 Peak-positive and peak-negative acoustic pressure
      8.1.2 Pulse acoustic pressure
      8.1.3 Spatial-peak pulse acoustic pressure
      8.1.4 Spatial-peak r.m.s. acoustic pressure
      8.1.5 Beam-average pulse acoustic pressure
      8.1.6 Beam-average r.m.s. acoustic pressure
      8.1.7 Spatial-average pulse acoustic pressure
      8.1.8 Spatial-average r.m.s. acoustic pressure
      8.1.9 Nonlinear propagation parameter
  8.2 Derived intensity parameters
  8.3 Derived pulse-intensity integral parameters
9 Acoustic output specification and labelling
Annexes
A (informative)
  A.1 Hydrophones
      A.1.1 Electrical loading considerations
      A.1.2 Hydrophone signal amplifier
      A.1.3 Alignment of hydrophones
      A.1.4 Types of hydrophone
            A.1.4.1 Ceramic probe hydrophones
            A.1.4.2 PVDF probe hydrophones
            A.1.4.3 PVDF membrane hydrophones
            A.1.4.4 Relative performance of different types
      A.1.5 Typical specification data for hydrophones
B (informative)
  B.1 Acoustic pressure and intensity
C (informative)
  C.1 Transducer and hydrophone positioning systems
D (informative) Rationale
Annex ZA (normative) Other International Publications quoted in
                     this standard with the references of the
                     relevant European Publications
Bibliography
Figures

Defines the methods of use of calibrated piezoelectric hydrophones for the measurement in liquids of acoustic fields generated by ultrasonic medical equipment operating in the frequency range 0,5 MHz to 15 MHz.

DocumentType
Standard
Pages
141
PublisherName
National Standards Authority of Ireland
Status
Superseded
SupersededBy

Standards Relationship
EN 61102:1993/A1:1994 Identical
SN EN 61102 : 1993 AMD 1 1994 Identical
DIN EN 61102:1994-12 Identical
BS EN 61102:1994 Identical
UNE-EN 61102:1996 Identical
NBN EN 61102 : 1994 Identical
NF EN 61102 : 94 AMD 1 94 Identical

IEC TR 60854:1986 Methods of measuring the performance of ultrasonic pulse-echo diagnostic equipment
IEC 60469-1:1987 Pulse techniques and apparatus. Part 1: Pulse terms and definitions
IEC 60050-801:1994 International Electrotechnical Vocabulary (IEV) - Part 801: Acoustics and electroacoustics
IEC 60866:1987 Characteristics and calibration of hydrophones for operation in the frequency range 0.5 MHz to 15 MHz

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