Capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducers (CMUTs) for photoacoustic imaging

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6086, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Vaithilingam, Srikant ^a   Wygant, Ira O ^a   Kuo, Paulina S ^a   Zhuang, Xuefeng ^a   Oralkan, Ömer ^a   Olcott, Peter D ^b   Khuri Yakub, Butrus T ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

CMUT; High frequency; Imaging; Integrated electronics; Laser; Optoacoustic; Photoacoustic; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; GEOMETRY; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LASER PULSES; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MICROMACHINING; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; POLYETHYLENES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TRANSDUCERS;

CMUT; HIGH-FREQUENCY; INTEGRATED ELECTRONICS; OPTOACOUSTIC;

ULTRASONICS;

EID: 33646170671     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.659459     Document Type: Conference Paper

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