Capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducers for therapeutic ultrasound applications

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 114-123

  Wong, Serena H ^a   Kupnik, Mario ^a   Watkins, Ronald D ^b   Butts Pauly, Kim ^a   Khuri Yakub, B T ^b  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducers (CMUTs); High intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU); Therapeutic ultrasound; Wafer bonding

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC OUTPUT PRESSURE; BEAM PROFILES; BEAM WIDTHS; CAPACITIVE MICROMACHINED ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCER; CELL DESIGN; CONCENTRIC RINGS; CROSSTALK EFFECT; ELEMENT ARRAY; FOCAL INTENSITY; HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; NON-INVASIVE TREATMENT; SIDE LOBES; THERAPEUTIC ULTRASOUND;

DESIGN; FABRICATION; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC EQUIPMENT; ULTRASONIC MEASUREMENT; ULTRASONIC TRANSMISSION; ULTRASONIC WAVES; ULTRASONICS; WAFER BONDING;

ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

ABDOMINAL CANCER; ARTICLE; CAPACITIVE MICROMACHINED ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCER; HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NECROSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OXIDATION; PRESSURE; SIMULATION; TEMPERATURE; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER;

ABDOMINAL NEOPLASMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, INTERVENTIONAL; MICROTECHNOLOGY; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC THERAPY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 76649121820     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2009.2026909     Document Type: Article

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