Fully sampled, 3600 element, two dimensional transducer array for low cost C-scan imaging

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6147, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Eames, Matt ^a   Zhou, Shiwei ^a   Hossack, John ^a  

^a University of Virginia   (United States)

Author keywords

Beam profile; Finite Element Analysis; Impedance; Pulse echo; SNR

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; BANDWIDTH; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

BEAM PROFILE; MATCHING LAYER; PULSE-ECHO; VOLTAGE WAVEFORMS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 33745368554     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.661500     Document Type: Conference Paper

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