Ultrasonic imaging front-end design for CMUT: A 3-level 30Vpp pulse-shaping pulser with improved efficiency and a noise-optimized receiver

Proceedings - 2012 IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference, A-SSCC

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 173-176

  Chen, Kailiang ^a   Chandrakasan, Anantha P ^a   Sodini, Charles G ^a  

^a Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY IMPROVEMENT; ELECTRICAL MEASUREMENT; MEDICAL ULTRASOUND IMAGING; OFF-CHIP COMPONENTS; PULSE SHAPING TECHNIQUES; TRANSCEIVER CHIPS; TRANSIMPEDANCE AMPLIFIERS; TRANSMITTERS (TX);

ACOUSTIC NOISE; DIFFERENTIAL AMPLIFIERS; OPTIMIZATION; TRANSMITTERS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

PULSE SHAPING;

EID: 84881082341     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IPEC.2012.6522653     Document Type: Conference Paper

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