Integration of 2D CMUT arrays with front-end electronics for volumetric ultrasound imaging

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 327-341

  Wygant, Ira O ^a,b   Zhuang, Xuefeng ^a,b   Yeh, David T ^a,b   Oralkan, Ömer ^a,b   Ergun, A Sanli ^a,b   Karaman, Mustafa ^a,b,c   Khuri Yakub, Butrus T ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ISIK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INPUT-REFERRED RECEIVER NOISE; TRANSDUCER ARRAYS; WIRE-TARGET PHANTOM;

ARRAY PROCESSING; CAPACITANCE; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TWO DIMENSIONAL; ULTRASONICS;

ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRANSDUCER;

ALGORITHMS; ELECTRONICS, MEDICAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 40549140813     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2008.652     Document Type: Article

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