Biomedical subjects

Kenji Saijyou

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PubMed2005

Regularization method for measurement of structural intensity using nearfield acoustical holography.

The regularization method for measurement of structural intensity using nearfield acoustical holography is proposed. Spatial derivatives of normal displacement are necessary to obtain the structural intensity. The derivative operations amplify high-wave-number components of measurement noise. Therefore, the estimation of an appropriate wave-number filter is crucial for implementation of the measurement of structural intensity. In conventional methods, this wave-number filter is determined from the flexural wavelength. And the same wave-number filter is applied to obtain all spatial derivatives. As a result, structural intensity obtained from the pressure hologram, whose signal-to-noise ratio is low, is seriously contaminated by the noise. To overcome this difficulty, regularization theory is applied to determine the appropriate wave-number filter for each order of derivatives. The effectiveness of the proposed method is demonstrated by experiments.

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PubMed2004

Data extrapolation method for boundary element method-based near-field acoustical holography.

A new data extrapolation method for boundary element method (BEM)-based near-field acoustical holography (NAH) is proposed to reduce an error of the reconstructed result obtained from the pressure measured on an aperture small compared with the structure. The finiteness of the measurement aperture is a serious impediment to actual large-scale implementation of NAH, because NAH requires the measurement of the pressure field over a complete surface of structure. To eliminate the requirement, the wave number-space data extrapolation method for fast Fourier transform (FFT)-based NAH has been proposed. In this paper, the extension of this data extrapolation method to BEM-based NAH is presented. The effectiveness of this method is demonstrated by experiments. The experiment results confirm that the reconstruction error is sufficiently suppressed by the proposed method.

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PubMed2002

Analysis of flexural wave velocity and vibration mode in thin cylindrical shell.

The relationship between the flexural wave velocity and the excited vibration mode of a thin cylindrical shell is investigated. The natural frequency corresponding to the vibration mode is obtained as the solution of characteristic equation of thin cylindrical shell. However, all of these vibration modes are not excited actually. To estimate the excited vibration mode, the concept of "modified bending stiffness" is introduced, and the influence of each stress component upon the modified bending stiffness is analyzed. The excited mode is theoretically discriminated from the nonexcited mode based on the smallness of this modified bending stiffness. The validity of our theory is confirmed by an excellent agreement between theoretical and experimental results on flexural wave velocity.

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