Ultrasonic transducers and arrays

IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 20-30

  Shung, K Kirk ^{a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,j}   Zipparo, Michael J ^f,k,l  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d St John Providence Health System   (United States)

^e Institute of Applied Physiology and Medicine   (United States)

^f PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA   (United States)

^h American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering   (United States)

ⁱ NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^j IEEE   (United States)

^k IEEE Eng in Med and Biol Society ^*

^l Blatek Inc   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE RESOLUTION; ULTRASONIC ARRAYS;

ACOUSTIC ARRAYS; COST EFFECTIVENESS; IMAGE QUALITY; MEDICAL IMAGING; PIEZOELECTRIC MATERIALS; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

BIOMECHANICS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DOPPLER FLOWMETER; IMAGE PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PIEZOELECTRICITY; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 0030296842     PISSN: 07395175     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/51.544509     Document Type: Review

References (34)

1. Shung K Smith MB, Tsui BWM: Principles of Medical Imaging. Academic Press, San Diego, CA, 1992.
2. Lockwood GR, Ryan LR, Gotlieb AI, Lonn E, Hunt JW, Liu P, Foster FS: In vitro high resolution intravascular imaging in muscular and elastic arteries. J. Am. Coll. Cardiol 20: 153, 1992.
3. Turnbull DH, Starkoski BG, Harasiewicz KA, Semple JL, From L, Gupta AK, Sauder DN, Foster, FS: A 40-100 MHz B-scan ultrasound backscatter microscope for skin imaging. Ultrasound Med. and Biol. 21:79, 1995.
4. Reinstein DZ, Silvernian RH, Rondeau MJ, Coleman DJ: Epithelial corneal thickness measurements by high frequency ultrasound digital signal processing. Ophalmology 101:140, 1994.
5. Goldberg RL, Smith SW: Transducers in: Bronzino, J (ed): The Biomedical Engineering Handbook. CRC Press, Boca Raton FL, 1077-1092, 1994.
6. Daft CMW, Wildes DG, Thomas LJ, Smith LS: A 1.5 D transducer for medical ultrasound. 1994 IKEE Ultrasonics Symp. Proc. 1491, 1995.
7. Smith SW, Trahey GE, von Ramm OT: Two-dimensional array ultrasonic transducers. Ultras. Imag. 14: 213, 1992.
8. Turnbull DH, Foster FS: Beam steering with pulsed two-dimensional transducer arrays. IEEE Trans. Ultras. Ferro. Freq. Cont. 38: 320, 1991.
9. Lockwood GR, Foster FS: Optimizing the radiation pattern of sparse periodic two-dimensional arrays. IEEE Trans. Ultras. Ferro. Freq. Cont. 43: 15, 1996.
10. Kino GS: Acoustic Waves. Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1987
11. Cady WG: Piezoelectricity. Dover, New York, 1964.
12. Brown LF: Ferroelectric Polymers: Current and Future Ultrasound Applications 1992 IEEE Ultrasonics Symp. Proc. 539, 1993.
13. Smith WA: New Opportunities in Ultrasonic Transducers Emerging from Innovation in Piezoelectric Materials. 1992 SPIE International Symp on New Development in Ultrasonic Transducers and Transducer Systems 3, 1992.
14. Bowen LJ, Gentilman RL, Pham HT, Fiore DF, French KW: Injection molded fine-scale piezoelectric composite transducers. 1993 IEEE Ultrasonics Symp. Proc. 499, 1994.
15. Shrout TR, Fielding, J Jr: Relaxor Ferroelectric Materials. 1990 IEEE Ultrasonics Symp. Proc. 711, 1990
16. Zipparo MJ, Shung KK, Shrout, TR: Piezoelectric properties of fine grain PZT materials. 1995 IEEE Ultrasonics Symp. Proc. 617, 1996.
17. Kinsler LE, Frey AR, Coppens AB, Sanders, JV: Fundamentals of Acoustics, 3rd Ed. John Wiley, New York, 1982.
18. Desilets CS, Fraser JD, Kino, GS: The design of efficient broad-band piezoelectric transducers. IEEE Trans. Sonics Ultras. 25: 115, 1978.
19. Selfridge AR: Approximate material properties in isotropic materials. IEEE Trans. Son. Ultras. 32. 381, 1985.
20. Thiagarajan S, Jayawyrdena I, Martin, RW: Design of 20 MHz wideband piezoelectric transducers for close-proximity imaging. Biomed. Sci. Instru. 27: 57, 1991.
21. Haller MI, Khuri-Yakub BT: Tapered acoustic matching layers. 1993 IEEE Ultrasonics Symp. Proc., 505, 1994.
22. Sayers CM, Tait, CE: Ultrasonic properties of transducer backings. Ultrasonics. 22: 57, 1984.
23. Grewe MG, et al: Acoustic properties of particle/polymer composites for ultrasonic transducer backing applications. IEEE Trans. Ultras. Ferro. Freq. Cont. 37: 506, 1990.
24. Gururaja TR, et al: Piezoelectric composite materials for ultrasonic transducer applications. Part I. Resonant modes of vibration of PZT rodpolymer composites. IEEE Trans. Son. Ultras., 32: 481, 1985
25. Pazol BG, Bowen LJ, et al: Ultrasonic scale piezoelectric composite materials for high frequency ultrasonic imaging. 1995 IEEE Ultrasonics Symp. Proc., 1263, 1996.
26. Hayward G, Bennet J, Hamilton R: A theoretical study on the influence of some constituent material properties on the behavior of 1-3 connectivity composite transducers. J Acousl. Soc Am. 98: 2187, 1995.
27. Zinskin MC, Lewin PA: Ultrasonic Exposimetry. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 1993.
28. Hanafy A, Zanelli CI: Quantitative real-time pulsed schlieren imaging of ultrasonic waves. 1991 IEEE Ultrasonics Symp. Proc. 1223, 1991.
29. Lewin P: Miniature piezoelectric polymer ultrasonic hydrophone probes. Ultrasonics. 19, 213, 1981.
30. Christensen DA: Ultrasonic Instrumentation. John Wiley, New York, 1988.
31. Steinberg BD: Principles of Aperture and Array System Design. John Wiley, New York, 1976.
32. Turnbull DH, Foster FS: Simulation of B-scan images from two-dimensional arrays. Ultras. Imag. 14: 323, 1992
33. Tournois P, Calisti et al: A 128 × 4 channels 1.5D curved linear array for medical imaging. 1995 IEEE Ultrasonics Symp, Proc, 1331, 1996.
34. Smith SW, Davidson RE, and Emery CD: Update on 2-D array transducers for medical ultrasound. 1995 IEEE Ultrasonics Symp. Proc. 1273, 1996.