3-D Ultrasound imaging using a forward-looking CMUT ring array for intravascular/intracardiac applications

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1202-1210

  Yeh, David T ^a,b   Oralkan, Ömer ^a,b   Wygant, Ira O ^a,b   O'Donnell, Matthew ^a,c   Khuri Yakub, Butrus T ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPACITIVE MICRO-MACHINED ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCER (CMUT); FORWARD-VIEWING RING ARRAYS; PHASED-ARRAY VOLUMETRIC IMAGES;

BANDWIDTH; IMAGE QUALITY; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SIGNAL ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ARTICLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSDUCER;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 33746809101     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2006.1642519     Document Type: Article

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