Components for focused integrated pMUTs for high-resolution medical imaging

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn 2, Issue , 2005, Pages 787-791

  Fleischman, Aaron ^a   Chandrana, Chaitanya ^a,b   Fan, Jin ^a,c   Talman, Jim ^d   Garverick, Steve ^c   Lockwood, Geoff ^e   Roy, Shuvo ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Cleveland State University   (United States)

^c Case Western Reserve University   (United States)

^d NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^e QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROAD BAND TRANSDUCERS; INVASIVE IMAGING; POLYMER PIEZOELECTRIC MATERIALS;

ACOUSTIC TRANSDUCERS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; PIEZOELECTRIC MATERIALS; ULTRASONICS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 33847127404     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2005.1602969     Document Type: Conference Paper

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