title: Miniaturized ultrasound imaging probes enabled by CMUT arrays with integrated frontend electronic circuits.
abstract: Capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducer (CMUT) arrays are conveniently integrated with frontend integrated circuits either monolithically or in a hybrid multichip form. This integration helps with reducing the number of active data processing channels for 2D arrays. This approach also preserves the signal integrity for arrays with small elements. Therefore CMUT arrays integrated with electronic circuits are most suitable to implement miniaturized probes required for many intravascular, intracardiac, and endoscopic applications. This paper presents examples of miniaturized CMUT probes utilizing 1D, 2D, and ring arrays with integrated electronics.
authors.affiliation: E. L. Ginzton Laboratory, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA.
authors.forename: B T
authors.initials: BT
authors.lastname: Khuri-Yakub
authors.forename: Omer
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Oralkan
authors.forename: Amin
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Nikoozadeh
authors.forename: Ira O
authors.initials: IO
authors.lastname: Wygant
authors.forename: Steve
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Zhuang
authors.forename: Mustafa
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authors.lastname: Gencel
authors.forename: Jung Woo
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authors.lastname: Choe
authors.forename: Douglas N
authors.initials: DN
authors.lastname: Stephens
authors.forename: Alan
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: de la Rama
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Feng
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.forename: Aaron
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authors.lastname: Dentinger
authors.forename: Douglas
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Wildes
authors.forename: Kai
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Thomenius
authors.forename: Kalyanam
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authors.lastname: Shivkumar
authors.forename: Aman
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authors.lastname: Mahajan
authors.forename: Chi Hyung
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Seo
authors.forename: Matthew
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authors.lastname: O'Donnell
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authors.lastname: Truong
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authors.lastname: Sahn
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002404:Catheterization; D004562:Electrocardiography; D004582:Electronics, Medical / Q000295:instrumentation*; D021621:Imaging, Three-Dimensional / Q000295:instrumentation*; D055616:Microtechnology / Q000295:instrumentation*; D019047:Phantoms, Imaging; D034421:Sus scrofa; D014159:Transducers; D014465:Ultrasonics / Q000295:instrumentation*