Performance and characterization of new micromachined high-frequency linear arrays

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 53, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1719-1728

  Lukacs, Marc ^a,b   Yin, Jianhua ^b   Pang, Guofeng ^b   Garcia, Richard C ^b   Cherin, Emmanuel ^b   Williams, Ross ^b   Mehi, Jim ^a,c   Foster, F Stuart ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c Sonics Inc   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLEX CIRCUIT; HIGH FREQUENCY LINEAR ARRAYS; LASER MICROMACHINING; PEAK ACOUSTIC POWER;

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LINEAR SYSTEMS; MICROMACHINING;

ACOUSTIC ARRAYS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TRANSDUCER;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LINEAR MODELS; MINIATURIZATION; RADIO WAVES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 33845672738     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2006.105     Document Type: Article

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