Transurethral ultrasound catheter-based transducer with flexible polyimide joints

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2209-2212

  Culjat, Martin O ^a,b,c   Dann, Aaron E ^a,b   Lee, Michael ^a,b   Bennett, David B ^a,b   Schulam, Peter G ^a   Lee, Hua ^a,c   Grundfest, Warren S ^a,b   Singh, Rahul S ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Engineering IV   (United States)

^c University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Array; Conformal; Flexible; Prostate; Transducer; Transurethral; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

CATHETERS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LEAD COMPOUNDS; POLYIMIDES; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONICS; UROLOGY;

ARRAY; CONFORMAL; FLEXIBLE; PROSTATE; TRANSURETHRAL;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 77952798132     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2009.5441401     Document Type: Conference Paper

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