Net-shape ceramic manufacturing as an aid to realize ultrasonic transducers for high-resolution medical imaging

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn 3, Issue , 2005, Pages 1625-1628

  Button, T W ^a   Cochran, S ^b   Kirk, K J ^b   MacLennan, D ^c   MacNeil, A ^c   McDonald, K ^c   Meggs, C ^a   Rodriquez Sanmartin, D ^a   Webster, R ^a   Zhang, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE FOR PHYSICAL RESEARCH   (Armenia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CERAMIC MATERIALS; MEDICAL IMAGING; PIEZOELECTRIC MATERIALS; THIN FILMS;

HIGH FREQUENCY ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS; HIGH RESOLUTION MEDICAL IMAGING; NET SHAPE CERAMIC MANUFACTURING; NET SHAPE CERAMIC PROCESSING;

ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 33847134369     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2005.1603173     Document Type: Conference Paper

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