An analog integrated circuit beamformer for high-frequency medical ultrasound imaging

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 454-467

  Gurun, Gokce ^a   Zahorian, Jaime S ^a   Sisman, Alper ^b   Karaman, Mustafa ^c   Hasler, Paul E ^a   Levent Degertekin, F ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MARMARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c ISIK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

All pass filter; analog delay; beamforming; biquad current mirror; delay line; ultrasound imaging

Indexed keywords

ANALOG DELAY; ANALOG INTEGRATED CIRCUIT; ANNULAR ARRAY; ANNULAR ARRAY TRANSDUCERS; BASIC BUILDING BLOCK; BEAM FORMERS; CMOS TECHNOLOGY; CURRENT MIRRORS; CURRENT MODE; DELAY AND SUMS; DELAY CELL; ENHANCEMENT TECHNIQUES; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; FIRST-ORDER; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; MEDICAL ULTRASOUND IMAGING; PREAMPLIFICATION; RECEIVE BEAMFORMER; ULTRASOUND IMAGING;

ALL-PASS FILTERS; BANDWIDTH; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; DELAY CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC DELAY LINES; LINEAR INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MIRRORS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONICS; WAVES;

BEAMFORMING;

ARTICLE; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BLOOD VESSEL; CATHETER; ECHOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION STUDY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; SEMICONDUCTOR; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICS; TRANSDUCER;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BLOOD VESSELS; CATHETERS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; SEMICONDUCTORS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 84870563379     PISSN: 19324545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBCAS.2012.2219532     Document Type: Article

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