Dual-annular-ring CMUT array for forward-looking IVUS imaging

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 698-701

  Guldiken, Rasim ^a   Zahorian, Jaime ^a   Balantekin, Mujdat ^a   Degertekin, F Levent ^a   Tekeş, Coşkun ^b   Sişman, Alper ^b   Karaman, Mustafa ^b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b ISIK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Beamforming; CMUT; Intravascular ultrasound; Syhnthetic phased array; Ultrasonic imaging

Indexed keywords

ANNULAR ARRAY; ARRAY CONFIGURATIONS; CMUT; DUAL-RING; IMAGING EXPERIMENTS; IMAGING SIMULATION; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; IVUS IMAGING; PHASED ARRAYS; PULSE ECHOES; RING ARRAYS; SILICON AREA; SILICON SUBSTRATES; TEST ARRAYS;

BEAMFORMING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ULTRASONICS;

EID: 44949169778     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2006.187     Document Type: Conference Paper

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