Deep tissue photoacoustic imaging using a miniaturized 2-D capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducer array

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1199-1204

  Kothapalli, Sri Rajasekhar ^a   Ma, Te Jen ^b   Vaithilingam, Srikant ^b   Oralkan, Ömer ^c   Khuri Yakub, Butrus T ^b   Gambhir, Sanjiv Sam ^a,d  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

^c North Carolina State University   (United States)

^d Departments of Radiology Bioengineering and Materials Science and Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Capacitive micromachined ultrasound transducer (CMUT) array; deep tissue imaging; optoacoustic; photoacoustic

Indexed keywords

A-CENTER; CAPACITIVE MICROMACHINED ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCER; CAPACITIVE MICROMACHINED ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER; DEEP TISSUE IMAGING; DEPTH SENSITIVITY; EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; FRONT-END AMPLIFIER; INDOCYANINE GREEN DYE; OPTOACOUSTIC; PHOTO-ACOUSTIC IMAGING; PHOTOACOUSTIC; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGES; VOLUMETRIC IMAGES;

PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TISSUE; TRANSDUCERS;

ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

INDOCYANINE GREEN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAPACITIVE MICROMACHINED ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE INTENSIFIER; LIGHT SCATTERING; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PHANTOM; PHOTOACOUSTIC MICROSCOPY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER;

ANIMALS; CHICKENS; HAIR; HORSES; MINIATURIZATION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTOACOUSTIC TECHNIQUES; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 84860375827     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2012.2183593     Document Type: Article

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