acoustic impedance
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Note that the acoustic impedances for soft tissue do not vary much but that there is a big difference between the acoustic impedance of soft tissue and air and also between soft tissue and bone.
From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015
The greater the difference in acoustic impedance between the two media, the greater the reflection and the smaller the transmission.
From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015
Reflections at boundaries between two different media occur because of differences in a characteristic known as the acoustic impedance Z of each substance.
From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015
While employed as a research engineer for Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill, N.J., he helped develop a talking typewriter and wrote papers on room acoustics, sound absorption and acoustic impedance.
From New York Times ● Jan. 9, 2011
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