Miniaturized ultrasound imaging probes enabled by CMUT arrays with integrated frontend electronic circuits

2010 Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC'10

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 5987-5990

  Khuri Yakub, B T ^a   Oralkan, Ömer ^a   Nikoozadeh, Amin ^a   Wygant, Ira O ^a   Zhuang, Steve ^a   Gencel, Mustafa ^a   Choe, Jung Woo ^a   Stephens, Douglas N ^b   De La Rama, Alan ^c   Chen, Peter ^c   Lin, Feng ^d   Dentinger, Aaron ^d   Wildes, Douglas ^d   Thomenius, Kai ^d   Shivkumar, Kalyanam ^e   Mahajan, Aman ^e   Seo, Chi Hyung ^f   O'Donnell, Matthew ^f   Truong, Uyen ^g   Sahn, David J ^g  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c St Jude Medical   (United States)

^d GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^g OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2D ARRAYS; ACTIVE DATA; CAPACITIVE MICROMACHINED ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCER; ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS; ENDOSCOPIC APPLICATIONS; FRONT END ELECTRONICS; INTEGRATED ELECTRONICS; INTRAVASCULAR; MULTI-CHIP; PROCESSING CHANNELS; RING ARRAYS; SIGNAL INTEGRITY; ULTRASOUND IMAGING;

DATA HANDLING; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONICS;

PROBES;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CATHETERIZATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; MICROTECHNOLOGY; SWINE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRANSDUCER; ULTRASOUND;

ANIMALS; CATHETERIZATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTRONICS, MEDICAL; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MICROTECHNOLOGY; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SUS SCROFA; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONICS;

EID: 78650804209     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2010.5627580     Document Type: Conference Paper

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