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There are currently two different types of acoustic diffractive lenses: those that form a diffraction-limited spot with a shallow depth of focus (zone plates) and lenses that form an extended focus (quasi-Bessel beams). In this paper, we investigate a pupil-masked Soret zone plate, which allows the tunability of a normalized angular spectrum. It is shown that the depth of focus and the lateral resolution can be modified, without changing the lens structure, by choosing the size of the pupil mask. This effect is based on the transformation of spherically-converging waves into quasi-conical waves, due to the apodization of the central part of the zone plate. The theoretical analysis is verified with both numerical simulations and experimental measurements. A Soret zone plate immersed in water with D\/2F = 2.5 and F = 4.5   \u03bb    changes its depth of focus from 2.84   \u03bb    to 5.9   \u03bb    and the lateral resolution increases from 0.81   \u03bb    to 0.64   \u03bb    at a frequency of 250 kHz, by modifying the pupil mask dimensions of the Soret zone plate.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s19020378","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,1,17]],"date-time":"2019-01-17T11:30:27Z","timestamp":1547724627000},"page":"378","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":23,"title":["Design of Acoustical Bessel-Like Beam Formation by a Pupil Masked Soret Zone Plate Lens"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"19","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-9986-0884","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Daniel","family":"Tarraz\u00f3-Serrano","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Centro de Tecnolog\u00edas F\u00edsicas, Universitat Polit\u00e8cnica de Val\u00e8ncia, Cam\u00ed de Vera s\/n, 46022 Val\u00e8ncia, Spain"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Sergio","family":"Casti\u00f1eira-Ib\u00e1\u00f1ez","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Centro de Tecnolog\u00edas F\u00edsicas, Universitat Polit\u00e8cnica de Val\u00e8ncia, Cam\u00ed de Vera s\/n, 46022 Val\u00e8ncia, Spain"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Oleg V.","family":"Minin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Radiophysical department, Tomsk State University, 30 Lenin Avenue, Tomsk 634050, Russia"},{"name":"Engineering school of nondestructive testing, Tomsk Polytechnic University, 36 Lenin Avenue, Tomsk 634050, Russia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Pilar","family":"Candelas","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Centro de Tecnolog\u00edas F\u00edsicas, Universitat Polit\u00e8cnica de Val\u00e8ncia, Cam\u00ed de Vera s\/n, 46022 Val\u00e8ncia, Spain"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4395-7473","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Constanza","family":"Rubio","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Centro de Tecnolog\u00edas F\u00edsicas, Universitat Polit\u00e8cnica de Val\u00e8ncia, Cam\u00ed de Vera s\/n, 46022 Val\u00e8ncia, Spain"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6108-8419","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Igor V.","family":"Minin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Engineering school of nondestructive testing, Tomsk Polytechnic University, 36 Lenin Avenue, Tomsk 634050, Russia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,1,17]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1399","DOI":"10.1161\/01.CIR.74.6.1399","article-title":"Intimal plus medial thickness of the arterial wall: A direct measurement with ultrasound imaging","volume":"74","author":"Pignoli","year":"1986","journal-title":"Circulation"},{"key":"ref_2","unstructured":"Amemiya, I., Yagi, H., Mori, K., Yamamoto, N., Saitoh, S., Tanuma, C., and Hirahara, S. 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