Design of low-cost portable ultrasound systems: Review

Proceedings of the 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society: Engineering the Future of Biomedicine, EMBC 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 792-795

  Baran, Jonathan M ^a   Webster, John G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSTS; DIAGNOSIS; MEDICAL IMAGING; PIEZOELECTRIC CERAMICS; ULTRASONIC EQUIPMENT;

IMAGING MODALITY; MEDICAL CONDITIONS; PIEZO-CERAMICS; PIEZOELECTRIC CRYSTALS; PORTABLE APPLICATIONS; PORTABLE ULTRASOUND; STANDALONE SYSTEMS; ULTRASOUND SYSTEM;

ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 77950966833     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5332754     Document Type: Conference Paper

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