Exploitation of capacitive micromachined transducers for nonlinear ultrasound imaging

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 56, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2733-2743

  Novell, Anthony ^a   Legros, Mathieu ^b   Felix, Nicolas ^c   Bouakaz, Ayache ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOURS   (France)

^b Vermon SA ^*  (France)

^c SUPERSONIC IMAGINE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SIGNALS; BEFORE AND AFTER; CAPACITIVE MICROMACHINED TRANSDUCER; CAPACITIVE MICROMACHINED ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCER; CONTRAST AGENT; CONTRAST IMAGING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; FREQUENCY BAND WIDTH; FUNDAMENTAL COMPONENT; HARMONIC COMPONENTS; HARMONIC IMAGING; HARMONIC REDUCTION; NON-LINEAR METHODS; NON-LINEAR RESPONSE; NON-LINEAR ULTRASOUND; NONLINEAR APPROACH; NONLINEAR BEHAVIOR; NONLINEAR COMPONENTS; NONLINEAR IMAGING; OPTIMAL PARAMETER; PZT TRANSDUCERS;

ACOUSTIC WAVES; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; PIEZOELECTRIC ACTUATORS; PIEZOELECTRIC MATERIALS; PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS; SEMICONDUCTING LEAD COMPOUNDS; ULTRASONICS;

ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC CAPACITANCE; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEM; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSDUCER;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; ELECTRIC CAPACITANCE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MICRO-ELECTRICAL-MECHANICAL SYSTEMS; MINIATURIZATION; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 73649086244     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2009.1364     Document Type: Article

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