Front-end receiver electronics for a matrix transducer for 3-D transesophageal echocardiography

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 59, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1500-1512

  Yu, Zili ^a   Blaak, Sandra ^b   Chang, Zu Yao ^a   Yao, Jiajian ^a   Bosch, Johan G ^b   Prins, Christian ^c   Lancee, Charles T ^b   De Jong, Nico ^b   Pertijs, Michiel A P ^a   Meijer, Gerard C M ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c Oldelft Ultrasound BV   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3-D IMAGE; CMOS TECHNOLOGY; FRONT-END RECEIVER; LOW-POWER CIRCUIT; MINIATURE ULTRASOUND PROBE; PROTOTYPE CHIP; TIME-GAIN COMPENSATIONS; TRANSDUCER ELEMENTS; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHIES;

BEAMFORMING; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS; PROBES; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONICS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSDUCER; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 84865236196     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2012.2350     Document Type: Article

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