A matrix transducer design with improved image quality and acquisition rate

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 411-415

  Daft, Chris ^a   Brueske, Dan ^a   Wagner, Paul ^a   Liu, Donald ^a  

^a SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

2-D ARRAY; 3D; 3D SCANNING; A/D CONVERSION; ACQUISITION RATES; AMPLITUDE CONTROL; ANATOMICAL STRUCTURES; BASE BANDS; BEAM FORMATION; BISTATIC; CAPACITIVE MICROMACHINED TRANSDUCER; CLINICAL USES; CMUT; DESIGN GOALS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; HEART VALVES; HIGH-BANDWIDTH; HIGH-DYNAMIC-RANGE; IMAGING PARAMETERS; INTERCONNECT DENSITIES; MEDICAL ULTRASOUND; MEMS; NEW APPROACHES; NOVEL TECHNIQUES; PARALLEL INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; POWER CONSUMPTION; POWER DISSIPATIONS; PREAMPLIFICATION; SIGNAL FIDELITY; SILICON ULTRASOUND; STATE OF THE ARTS; TIME-GAIN; TIME-VARYING GAINS; TRANSDUCER DESIGN; TRANSDUCER ELEMENTS; TRANSMITTER AND RECEIVER; VOLUME IMAGING;

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC POWER UTILIZATION; ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY; IMAGE QUALITY; INFORMATION SERVICES; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MIXING; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); SEARCH ENGINES; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TRANSDUCERS; TRANSMITTERS; ULTRASONICS;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 48149089992     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2007.112     Document Type: Conference Paper

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