Abstract
The dorsal aspect target strength pattern of straight cylinders made of polystyrene (EPS) are measured and compared with the deformed cylinder scattering model (DCM) proposed by Ye [Zhen Ye, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 102, 877–884 (1997)] in the range of the tilt angle from −50° to 50°. Both experiments and the theory agreed very well for the wide range of tilt angle. The deformed cylinder model is also applied to predict the target strength pattern of Ayu (Plecoglossus altivelis) which is a river fish with an open swimbladder. The dorsal target strength of Ayu is measured by keeping it in alive condition. Then its swimbladder’s shape is observed using a soft x-ray system and digitized. Digitized data is used for the calculation on the basis of the deformed cylinder model and also the shape of the swimbladder is reproduced carving a rectangular solid of EPS by hand. The measured TS pattern of alive Ayu, the physical EPS model of swimbladder, and the DCM calculation agreed very well. Expanded polystyrene is a useful material to verify the scattering theory of the gas model and can become an artificial fish model with a swimbladder. Scattering from a complicated shape as a fish is predictable using DCM.
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