Advantages of Capacitive Micromachined Ultrasonics Transducers (CMUTs) for High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU)

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1313-1316

  Wong, Serena H ^a   Kupnik, Mario ^a   Butts Pauly, Kim ^b   Khuri Yakub, Butrus T ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPACITIVE MICROMACHINED ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS; CONTINUOUS-WAVE; FINITE ELEMENT MODELING; HIGH PRESSURE; HIGH-INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; MICROMACHINED; MINIMALLY INVASIVE; NON-INVASIVE; SELF-HEATING; TEMPERATURE MONITORING;

ACOUSTIC WAVES; ACOUSTOOPTICAL EFFECTS; ELECTROACOUSTIC TRANSDUCERS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HEATING; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES; PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS; PIEZOELECTRICITY; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC TESTING; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONICS;

SONOCHEMISTRY;

EID: 43349106944     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2007.330     Document Type: Conference Paper

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