Two approaches to electronically scanned 3d imaging using cMUTs

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 685-688

  Daft, Chris ^a   Panda, Satchi ^a   Wagner, Paul ^a   Ladabaum, Igal ^a  

^a SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

3D; Capacitive micromachined transducer; CMUT; Medical ultrasound; MEMS; Silicon ultrasound; Volume imaging

Indexed keywords

3D; CAPACITIVE MICROMACHINED TRANSDUCER; CMUT; MEDICAL ULTRASOUND; SILICON ULTRASOUND; VOLUME IMAGING;

BIAS VOLTAGE; IMAGE QUALITY; MEDICAL IMAGING; MICROMACHINING; MONOLITHIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; PROBES; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONICS;

ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 40549104896     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2006.185     Document Type: Conference Paper

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