Attenuation of ultrasound pressure fields described via contrast source formulation

Experimental data reveal that attenuation is an important phenomenon in medical ultrasound. The phenomenon is of particular importance for applications based on nonlinear propagation, as the higher frequency components of the pressure field generally experience greater attenuation. Therefore a method that is capable of modeling attenuation accurately is essential. In this paper we present a method to model attenuation via a contrast source formulation. We compare the obtained results with a version of the INCS method in which the attenuation is included in the Green's function. Both results are in excellent agreement with each other.