Design of a low power time-gain-compensation amplifier for a 2Dpiezoelectric ultrasound transducer

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 841-844

  Yao, J ^a   Yu, Z ^b   Pertijs, M A P ^b   Meijer, G C M ^c   Lancee C T ^c   Bosch, J G ^c   De Jong, N ^c  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

2D piezoelectrictransducer; low power analog circuit; Time gain compensation amplifier

Indexed keywords

2D PIEZOELECTRICTRANSDUCER; CMOS PROCESSS; DYNAMIC RANGE; GAIN ERRORS; GAIN SETTINGS; INPUT SIGNAL; LOW POWER; SIMULATION AND MEASUREMENT; TIME-GAIN-COMPENSATION AMPLIFIER; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCERS; VOLTAGE-TO-CURRENT CONVERTERS; 2D PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCER; CURRENT-TO-VOLTAGE CONVERTERS; OPEN-LOOP AMPLIFIERS;

ANALOG CIRCUITS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC PROPAGATION; ULTRASONIC SCATTERING; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS; PIEZOELECTRICITY; ULTRASONICS;

ULTRASONICS; PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 80054066962     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2010.5935775     Document Type: Conference Paper

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