Design of a Front-End Integrated Circuit for 3D Acoustic Imaging Using 2D CMUT Arrays

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 52, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 2235-2241

  Çiçek, İhsan ^a   Bozkurt, Ayhan ^a   Karaman, Mustafa ^b  

^a SABANCI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ISIK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC CAPACITANCE; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROELECTRODE; SEMICONDUCTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRANSDUCER;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; ELECTRIC CAPACITANCE; ELECTRONICS, MEDICAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LINEAR MODELS; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; MICROELECTRODES; MINIATURIZATION; SEMICONDUCTORS; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 33644859258     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2005.1563266     Document Type: Article

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