Polyurea thin film ultrasonic transducers for nondestructive testing and medical imaging

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 54, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 2165-2174

  Nakazawa, Marie ^a,b   Kosugi, Tsutomu ^b   Nagatsuka, Hiromi ^b   Maezawa, Akihiro ^c   Nakamura, Kentaro ^a,b   Ueha, Sadayuki ^b  

^a IEEE   (Japan)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c Konica Minolta Medical and Graphic Co Ltd   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURVE MEASUREMENTS; LINE FOCUS TRANSDUCERS; POLYUREA FILMS;

ALUMINUM; MEDICAL IMAGING; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES; POLYMERIZATION; THIN FILMS; VAPOR DEPOSITION;

ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

POLYMER; POLYUREA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; ECHOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSDUCER;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MATERIALS TESTING; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POLYMERS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 37049020215     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2007.513     Document Type: Article

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