Reconfigurable mosaic annular arrays

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 61, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1086-1100

  Thomenius, Kai ^a   Wodnicki, Robert ^b   Cogan, Scott ^b   Fisher, Rayette ^b   Burdick, Bill ^b   Smith, L ^b   Khuri Yakub, Pierre ^c   Lin, Der Song ^c   Zhuang, Xuefeng ^d   Bonitz, Barry ^e,f   Davies, Todd ^e,f   Thomas, Glen ^e,g   Woychik, Charles ^h  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^c Stanford University   (United States)

^d Kolo Medical Inc   (United States)

^e Endicott Interconnect Technologies   (United States)

^f I3 Electronics Inc   (United States)

^g INDIUM CORPORATION   (United States)

^h Invensas Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

CENTER FREQUENCY; EFFICIENT ARCHITECTURE; ELECTRONICALLY SCANNED ARRAYS; ELECTRONICS ASSEMBLY; INTEGRATED ARRAYS; INTEGRATED ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCER; LARGE AREA ARRAYS; RECONFIGURABLE ARRAY;

TRANSDUCERS;

COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DEVICE FAILURE ANALYSIS; DEVICES; ECHOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 84903590146     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2014.3009     Document Type: Article

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