Modeling piezoelectric ultrasonic transducers for physiotherapy

Iglesias, E.; De Frutos, J.; Montero De Espinosa, F.
Boletín de la Sociedad Española de Cerámica y Vidrio, V54, N6, 2015, pp. 231-235

Applications of ultrasound are well known in medical and aesthetic skin and subcutaneous fatty tissue mobilization treatments. The basic transducer used consists of a piezoelectric disk adhered to a metal delay line in capsule shape. The capsule design is critical since the two bonded elements have vibration modes which can cause very inefficient designs and vibration distributions very irregular if they are not properly studied and utilized. This must be known to avoid distributions of heat and sound pressure that could be ineffective or harmful.

In this paper, using Finite Element Method and laser interferometric vibrational analysis, it has reached a piston-type solution that allows properly implement sound pressure vibration dose.

Financiación

El trabajo se ha realizado con financiación de los proyectos CICYT DPI2013-46915-C2-1-R y MAT2013-48009-C4-3-P.