Integrated ultrasound imaging systems based on capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducer arrays

Proceedings of IEEE Sensors

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 704-707

  Wygant, Ira O ^a   Yeh, David T ^a   Zhuang, Xuefeng ^a   Vaithilingam, Srikant ^a   Nikoozadeh, Amin ^a   Oralkan, Omer ^a   Ergun, A Sanli ^a   Yaralioglu, Goksen G ^a   Khuri Yakub, Butrus T ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPACITIVE MICROMACHINED ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS (CMUT); ENDOSCOPIC CHANNEL; TRANSDUCER ARRAYS; VOLUMETRIC IMAGING;

CAPACITANCE; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT LAYOUT; MEDICAL IMAGING; MICROMACHINING; PATIENT TREATMENT; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 33847300074     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSENS.2005.1597796     Document Type: Conference Paper

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