Design of a multilayer transducer for acoustic bladder volume assessment

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 53, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1730-1737

  Merks, Egon J W ^b,c   Bouakaz, Ayache ^a,b,d   Bom, Nicolaas ^b   Lancée, Charles T ^b   Van Der Steen, Antonius F W ^a,b,d   De Jong, Nico ^a,b,d  

^a IEEE

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c Diagnostic Ultrasound Europe BV   (Netherlands)

^d ROYAL NETHERLANDS ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; CATHETERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; MEDICAL PROBLEMS; MULTILAYERS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ACOUSTIC BLADDER VOLUME; MULTILAYER TRANSDUCER; NONINVASIVE BLADDER VOLUME MEASUREMENT; PVDF LAYER;

PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLADDER; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; ORGAN SIZE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRANSDUCER;

ANIMALS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; ORGAN SIZE; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; URINARY BLADDER;

EID: 33845641857     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2006.106     Document Type: Article

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