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Acoustic waves with frequencies \(\xi \) between 16 Hz and 20 kHz can be sensed by the human hearing and are thus called audible waves or audible sound.
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Neumann, D., Kollorz, E. (2018). Ultrasound. In: Maier, A., Steidl, S., Christlein, V., Hornegger, J. (eds) Medical Imaging Systems. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11111. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96520-8_11
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