Angular spectrum method and ray algorithm for the acoustic field of a focusing transducer in an anisotropic solid.

The angular spectrum method is applied to calculating the acoustic field of a liquid-coupled focusing transducer in an anisotropic slab-shaped solid with surfaces normal to the axis of the transducer. The stationary phase approximation (SPA) is used to determine the dominant contributions to this field and calculate the echo signals produced by waves that have been reflected off the rear surface of the solid. The dominant features of this field and of the echoes are reproduced well by a hybrid ray method devised to simulate the finite point-spread function of the lens.