Beamforming and hardware design for a multichannel front-end integrated circuit for real-time 3D catheter-based ultrasonic imaging

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6147, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Wygant, Ira O ^a   Karaman, Mustafa ^b   Oralkan, Ömer ^a   Khuri Yakub, Butrus T ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ISIK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

3D; Beamforming; CMUT; Electronics; Imaging; Integration; Ultrasound; Volumetric

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); CAPACITANCE; CATHETERS; FLIP CHIP DEVICES; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

3D; BEAMFORMING; CLASSIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE (CSA); CMUT; VOLUMETRIC;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 33745363333     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.673786     Document Type: Conference Paper

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