Tomographic photoacoustic imaging using capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducer (CMUT) technology

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 397-400

  Vaithilingam, Srikant ^a   Wygant, Ira O ^a   Sifferman, Scott ^a   Zhuang, Xuefeng ^a   Furukawa, Yukio ^a   Oralkan, Ömer ^a   Keren, Shay ^b   Gambhir, Sanjiv S ^b   Khuri Yakub, Butrus T ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC COMPOUNDS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTROACOUSTIC TRANSDUCERS; FLOW OF FLUIDS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE RESOLUTION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); SCANNING; TARGETS; TRANSDUCERS; TWO DIMENSIONAL; ULTRASONIC EQUIPMENT; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONIC MEASUREMENT; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC WAVES; ULTRASONICS; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT;

ARBITRARY GEOMETRIES; CAPACITIVE MICROMACHINED ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCER (CMUT); CHICKEN TISSUE; CIRCULAR SCANNING; FRONT END ELECTRONICS (FEE); HIGH-FREQUENCY (HF); INTERNATIONAL (CO); LARGE ARRAYS; PHOTOACOUSTIC (PA) IMAGES; PLANAR SCANNING; TOMOGRAPHIC; TWO-DIMENSIONAL (2-D) ARRAY;

PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

ARBITRARY GEOMETRY; CAPACITIVE MICROMACHINED ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCER; CHICKEN TISSUE; CIRCULAR SCANNING; CYLINDRICAL ARRAYS; FRONT END ELECTRONICS; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; LARGE ARRAYS; PHOTO-ACOUSTIC IMAGING; PHOTOACOUSTIC IMAGE; PLANAR SCANNING; PULSE ECHOES; TOMOGRAPHIC; TWO-DIMENSIONAL ARRAYS;

EID: 44949131022     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2006.112     Document Type: Conference Paper

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