24.8 An analog-digital-hybrid single-chip RX beamformer with non-uniform sampling for 2D-CMUT ultrasound imaging to achieve wide dynamic range of delay and small chip area

Digest of Technical Papers - IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference

Volumn 57, Issue , 2014, Pages 426-427

  Um, Ji Yong ^a   Song, Eun Woo ^a   Kim, Yoon Jee ^a   Cho, Seong Eun ^a   Chae, Min Kyun ^a   Song, Jongkeun ^b   Kim, Baehyung ^b   Lee, Seunghun ^b   Bang, Jihoon ^b   Kim, Youngil ^b   Cho, Kyungil ^b   Kim, Byungsub ^a   Sim, Jae Yoon ^a   Park, Hong June ^a  

^a Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)   (South Korea)

^b Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALOG BEAMFORMING; DIGITAL BEAMFORMERS; NONUNIFORM SAMPLING; REALTIME PROCESSING; SMALL CHIP AREA; TRANSDUCER ELEMENTS; ULTRASOUND IMAGING; WIDE DYNAMIC RANGE;

DIAGNOSIS; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

BEAMFORMING;

EID: 84898067760     PISSN: 01936530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISSCC.2014.6757499     Document Type: Conference Paper

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