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Time-domain simulation of ultrasound propagation with fractional Laplacians for lossy-medium biological tissues with complicated geometries
Zhang, Junjian ; Zheng, Zhongquan C. ; Ke, Guoyi
Zhang, Junjian
Zheng, Zhongquan C.
Ke, Guoyi
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Abstract
Simulations of ultrasound wave propagation inside biological tissues have a wide range of practical
applications. In previous studies, wave propagation equations in lossy biological media are solved
either with convolutions, which consume a large amount of memory, or with pseudo-spectral methods, which cannot handle complicated geometries effectively. The approach described in the paper
employed a fractional central difference method (FCD), combined with the immersed boundary
(IB) method for the finite-difference, time-domain simulation. The FCD method can solve the fractional Laplace terms in Chen and Holm’s lossy-medium equations directly in the physical domain
without integral transforms. It also works naturally with the IB method, which enables a simple
Cartesian-type grid mesh to be used to solve problems with complicated geometries. The numerical
results agree very well with the analytical solutions for frequency power-law attenuation lossy
media
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2019-01-03
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Acoustical Society of America
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The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 145, 589 (2019); doi: 10.1121/1.5087826