Ultrasonic imaging transceiver design for cmut: A three-level 30-vpp pulse-shaping pulser with improved efficiency and a noise-optimized receiver

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2734-2745

  Chen, Kailiang ^a   Lee, Hae Seung ^a   Chandrakasan, Anantha P ^a   Sodini, Charles G ^a  

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

Author keywords

Capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducer (CMUT); Charge recycling; Multilevel pulse shaping; Noise efficiency factor (NEF); Pulse echo response; Transimpedance amplifier (TIA); Transmitter (Tx) efficiency; Tx beamformation; Ultrasonic Doppler flow rate detection; Ultrasonic transceiver

Indexed keywords

BEAMFORMATION; CAPACITIVE MICROMACHINED ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCER; CHARGE RECYCLING; NOISE EFFICIENCY FACTORS; PULSE ECHOES; RATE DETECTION; TRANSIMPEDANCE AMPLIFIERS; TRANSMITTERS (TX);

ACOUSTIC NOISE; DIFFERENTIAL AMPLIFIERS; EFFICIENCY; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION; FLOW RATE; IMAGING SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; RECYCLING; TRANSCEIVERS; TRANSDUCERS; TRANSMITTERS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

PULSE SHAPING;

EID: 84887322148     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2013.2274895     Document Type: Article

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