Fabrication of a conformal ring-annular ultrasound array

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7629, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Dann, Aaron E ^a   Bennett, David B ^a   Singh, Rahul S ^a,c   Lemaire, Jean Jacques ^d   Grundfest, Warren S ^a,b   Culjat, Martin O ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Engineering IV   (United States)

^c University of California   (United States)

^d SERVICE DE RHUMATOLOGIE   (France)

Author keywords

circular ultrasound; conformal ultrasound; flexible polyimide; ring annular ultrasound; ultrasound

Indexed keywords

CIRCULAR ULTRASOUND; CONFORMAL ULTRASOUND; FLEXIBLE POLYIMIDE; RING-ANNULAR ULTRASOUND; ULTRASOUND;

FABRICATION; FLEXIBLE MANIPULATORS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES; PIEZOELECTRICITY; POLYIMIDES; SCANNING; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONIC TRANSMISSION; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

ULTRASONICS;

EID: 77956865844     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.844634     Document Type: Conference Paper

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