Forward-looking intracardiac ultrasound imaging using a 1-D CMUT array integrated with custom front-end electronics

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 55, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2651-2660

  Nikoozadeh, Amin ^a   Wygant, Ira O ^a   Lin, Der Song ^a   Oralkan, Ömer ^a   Ergun, A Sanli ^b   Stephens, Douglas N ^c   Thomenius, Kai E ^d   Dentinger, Aaron M ^d   Wildes, Douglas ^d   Akopyan, Gina ^e   Shivkumar, Kalyanam ^e   Mahajan, Aman ^e   Sahn, David J ^f   Khuri Yakub, Butrus T ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TOBB UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND TECHNOLOGY   (Turkey)

^c University of California Davis   (United States)

^d GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

A-CENTER; ARRAY ELEMENTS; CAPACITIVE MICROMACHINED ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCER; CARDIAC ARRHYTHMIA; CUSTOM-INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; EX-VIVO; FLIP CHIP; FRACTIONAL BANDWIDTHS; FRAME-RATE; FRONT END ELECTRONICS; IMAGING CAPABILITIES; IMPROVED VISUALIZATION; INTEGRATED DEVICE; INTRACARDIAC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHIES; INTRACARDIAC IMAGING; LANGENDORFF; MINIMALLY INVASIVE; OUTPUT BUFFER; PHASED ARRAYS; POLYDIMETHYLSILOXANE PDMS; PULSE ECHOES; RABBIT HEARTS; SIDE-LOOKING; SMALL FEATURES; STANDARD PROCEDURES; TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES; THROUGH-WAFER VIAS; TRANSIMPEDANCE PREAMPLIFIERS; ULTRASOUND IMAGING; ULTRASOUND IMAGING SYSTEMS; UNIPOLAR PULSE;

CATHETERS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FLUORESCENT SCREENS; ICE; SILICONES; ULTRASONICS; VISUALIZATION;

ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART FUNCTION TEST; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; RABBIT; TRANSDUCER;

ANIMALS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTRONICS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RABBITS; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 68149141571     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2008.980     Document Type: Article

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