Fabrication of CMUT cells with gold center mass for higher output pressure

AIP Conference Proceedings

Volumn 1359, Issue , 2011, Pages 183-188

  Yoon, Hyo Seon ^a   Ho, Min Chieh ^a   Apte, Nikhil ^a   Cristman, Paul ^a   Vaithilingam, Srikant ^a   Kupnik, Mario ^a   Butts Pauly, Kim ^b   Khuri Yakub, Butrus T ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

CMUT; Gold center mass; HIFU; Output pressure

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053622508     PISSN: 0094243X     EISSN: 15517616     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3607902     Document Type: Conference Paper

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