High-frequency CMUT arrays for high-resolution medical imaging

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 5750, Issue , 2005, Pages 87-98

  Yeh, David T ^a   Oralkan, Orner ^a   Ergun, Arif S ^a   Zhuang, Xuefeng ^a   Wygant, Ira O ^a   Khuri Yakub, Butrus T ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducer; CMUT; High frequency ultrasound; Ring array

Indexed keywords

ARRAYS; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; FREQUENCIES; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; MICROMACHINING; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; TRANSDUCERS;

CAPACITIVE MICROMACHINED ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCER; CMUT; HIGH-FREQUENCY ULTRASOUND; RING ARRAY;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 24644461637     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.595918     Document Type: Conference Paper

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