Reconfigurable arrays for portable ultrasound

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn 1, Issue , 2005, Pages 495-499

  Fisher, R ^a   Thomenius, K ^a   Wodnicki, R ^a   Thomas, R ^a   Cogan, S ^a   Hazard, C ^a   Lee, W ^a   Mills, D ^a   Khuri Yakub, B ^b   Ergun, A ^b   Yaralioglu, G ^b  

^a GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Annular; Array; ASIC; cMUT; Dynamic; Phased; Real time; Reconfigurable; Switch matrix

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MICROMACHINING;

APPLICATION SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUIT (ASIC); CAPACITIVE MICROMACHINED ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCERS (CMUT); SWITCH MATRIX;

ULTRASONICS;

EID: 33847135726     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2005.1602899     Document Type: Conference Paper

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