Design and fabrication of annular arrays for high-frequency ultrasound

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 51, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1010-1017

  Brown, Jeremy A ^a   Démoré, Christine E M ^a   Lockwood, Geoffrey R ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); FREQUENCY RESPONSE; GLASS FIBERS; INSERTION LOSSES; LASER PULSES; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY; SCANNING; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

ANNULAR ARRAYS; BEAM WIDTH; LINEAR-PHASED ARRAYS; ULTRASONIC WIRE BONDING;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; ECHOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSDUCER; VALIDATION STUDY;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 4043082664     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2004.1324405     Document Type: Article

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