Miniaturizing Ultrasonic System for Portable Health Care and Fitness

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 767-776

  Tang, Hao Yen ^a   Seo, Dongjin ^a   Singhal, Utkarsh ^a   Li, Xi ^a   Maharbiz, Michel M ^a   Alon, Elad ^a   Boser, Bernhard E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fitness tracking; high voltage generation; in vivo 2 D ultrasound; Ultrasonic imager

Indexed keywords

BEAMFORMING; DATA ACQUISITION; DC-DC CONVERTERS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS; PIEZOELECTRICITY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TRANSDUCERS;

BEAMFORMER DELAYS; CONSUMER APPLICATIONS; DETECTABLE SIGNAL; HIGH ENERGY EFFICIENCY; HIGH VOLTAGE GENERATION; HIGH VOLTAGE LEVEL; IN-VIVO; PULSE ECHO MEASUREMENTS;

HVDC POWER TRANSMISSION;

DEVICES; ECHOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; MICROTECHNOLOGY; TRANSDUCER;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; MICROTECHNOLOGY; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 84954550613     PISSN: 19324545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBCAS.2015.2508439     Document Type: Conference Paper

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