Characterization of dual-electrode CMUTs: Demonstration of improved receive performance and pulse echo operation with dynamic membrane shaping

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 55, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 2336-2344

  Guldiken, Rasim O ^a   Balantekin, Mujdat ^a   Zahorian, Jaime ^a   Degertekin, F Levent ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

A CENTERS; CENTER FREQUENCIES; COLLAPSE VOLTAGES; DYNAMIC MEMBRANES; ECHO IMAGING; FRACTIONAL BANDWIDTHS; HIGH-PERFORMANCE; INTRACARDIAC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHIES; MAXIMUM PRESSURES; MONOSTATIC; PIEZOELECTRIC; PULSE ECHOES; RECEIVE MODES; SHAPING; SIGNAL LEVELS; TONE BURSTS;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROLYSIS; FREQUENCY RESPONSE;

ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC CAPACITANCE; ELECTRODE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, PULSED; ELECTRIC CAPACITANCE; ELECTRODES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 54049128204     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.933     Document Type: Article

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