Development of a 35-MHz piezo-composite ultrasound array for medical imaging

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 224-235

  Cannata, Jonathan M ^a,b,d   Williams, Jsy A ^a   Zhou, Qifa ^a,b,e,f   Ritter, Timothy A ^a,c,g,h   Kirk Shung, K ^a,e,i,j,k  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

^c KEESLER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e NIH Resource on Medical Ultrasonic Transducer Technology   (United States)

^f Materials Research Society   (United States)

^g American Association of Physicists in Medicine   (United States)

^h Health Physics Society   (United States)

ⁱ ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA   (United States)

^j American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine   (United States)

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

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLEXIBLE CIRCUIT; INSERTION LOSS; TUNGSTEN WIRE TARGET PHANTOM;

COMPOSITE MATERIALS; ELECTRIC LINES; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); TUNGSTEN; ULTRASONICS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ARTICLE; CERAMICS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROELECTRODE; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSDUCER;

CERAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MICROELECTRODES; MINIATURIZATION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 33144485046     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2006.1588408     Document Type: Article

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