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| DOI | 10.1121/10.0005655 | ||||
| Año | 2021 | ||||
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The numerical simulation of weakly nonlinear ultrasound is important in treatment planning for focused ultrasound (FUS) therapies. However, the large domain sizes and generation of higher harmonics at the focus make these problems extremely computationally demanding. Numerical methods typically employ a uniform mesh fine enough to resolve the highest harmonic present in the problem, leading to a very large number of degrees of freedom. This paper proposes a more efficient strategy in which each harmonic is approximated on a separate mesh, the size of which is proportional to the wavelength of the harmonic. The increase in resolution required to resolve a smaller wavelength is balanced by a reduction in the domain size. This nested meshing is feasible owing to the increasingly localised nature of higher harmonics near the focus. Numerical experiments are performed for FUS transducers in homogeneous media to determine the size of the meshes required to accurately represent the harmonics. In particular, a fast volume potential approach is proposed and employed to perform convergence experiments as the computation domain size is modified. This approach allows each harmonic to be computed via the evaluation of an integral over the domain. Discretising this integral using the midpoint rule allows the computations to be performed rapidly with the FFT. It is shown that at least an order of magnitude reduction in memory consumption and computation time can be achieved with nested meshing. Finally, it is demonstrated how to generalise this approach to inhomogeneous propagation domains.
| Ord. | Autor | Género | Institución - País |
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| 1 | Groth, Samuel P. | Hombre |
UNIV CAMBRIDGE - Reino Unido
Department of Engineering - Reino Unido |
| 2 | Gélat, Pierre | Hombre |
UCL - Reino Unido
University College London - Reino Unido |
| 3 | Haqshenas, Seyyed R. | - |
UCL - Reino Unido
University College London - Reino Unido |
| 4 | Saffari, Nader | Hombre |
UCL - Reino Unido
University College London - Reino Unido |
| 5 | van ’t Wout, Elwin | Hombre |
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile - Chile
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| 6 | Betcke, Timo | Hombre |
UCL - Reino Unido
University College London - Reino Unido |
| 7 | Wells, Garth N. | Hombre |
UNIV CAMBRIDGE - Reino Unido
Department of Engineering - Reino Unido |
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| Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council |
| Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
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| This work was supported by a grant entitled "Optimising patient specific treatment plans for ultrasound ablative therapies in the abdomen (OptimUS)" from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) (Grant Nos. EP/P013309/1 to the University of Cambridge and EP/P012434/1 to University College London). |
| This work was supported by a grant entitled “Optimising patient specific treatment plans for ultrasound ablative therapies in the abdomen (OptimUS)” from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) (Grant Nos. EP/P013309/1 to the University of Cambridge and EP/P012434/1 to University College London). |