Fully integrated CMUT-based forward-looking intracardiac imaging for electrophysiology

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 900-903

  Nikoozadeh, Amin ^a   Wygant, Ira O ^a   Lin, Der Song ^a   Oralkan, Orner ^a   Ergun, Arif Sanli ^a   Thomenius, Kai ^b   Dentinger, Aaron ^b   Wildes, Douglas ^b   Akopyan, Gina ^c   Shivkumar, Kalyanam ^c   Mahajan, Aman ^c   Stephens, Douglas N ^d   Sahn, David ^e   Khuri Yakub, Pierre T ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducers; CMUT; Electrophysiology; Forward looking; Guidance; Intracardiac echo; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

BOND PADS; CAPACITIVE MICROMACHINED ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCER; CAPACITIVE MICROMACHINED ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS; CARDIAC ARRHYTHMIAS; CMUT; FEATURE SIZES; FLEXIBLE PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD; FLIP CHIPPING; FORWARD LOOKING; FRACTIONAL BANDWIDTH; FRAME RATES; FRONT-END ELECTRONICS; FULLY INTEGRATED; GUIDANCE; IMAGING PERFORMANCE; IMPROVED SNR; INITIAL TESTING; INTRACARDIAC ECHO; INTRACARDIAC IMAGING; LINE DRIVERS; MEAN VALUE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE; RESONANT FREQUENCIES; RF ABLATION; STANDARD DEVIATION; SUB-ASSEMBLY; TRANSIMPEDANCE PREAMPLIFIERS; ULTRASOUND; ULTRASOUND IMAGING; ULTRASOUND IMAGING SYSTEMS; UNI-POLAR PULSING;

ACOUSTIC WAVES; CATHETERS; ELECTROACOUSTIC TRANSDUCERS; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURE; ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FLIP CHIP DEVICES; IMAGING SYSTEMS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; METALLIZING; METALS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS; PRINTED CIRCUIT MANUFACTURE; PRINTED CIRCUITS; STANDARDS; TECHNOLOGY; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONICS;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 48149103194     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2007.230     Document Type: Conference Paper

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