Medical ultrasound has become a crucial part of modern society and continues to play a vital
role in the diagnosis and treatment of illnesses. Over the past decades, the development of …

Sensors link the physical and electronic worlds, finding uses in environmental, automotive,
industrial, communication, and medical applications, among many more. Here, current …

In this article, an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) for 3-D, high-frame-rate
ultrasound imaging probes is presented. The design is the first to combine element-level …

This article presents an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) for catheter-based 3-D
ultrasound imaging probes. The pitch-matched design implements a comprehensive …

As medical ultrasound imaging moves from conventional cart-based scanners to new form
factors such as imaging catheters, hand-held point-of-care scanners and ultrasound …

This paper reports on a novel solution for a transimpedance amplifier (TIA) specifically
designed as an analog conditioning circuit for low-voltage, low-power, wearable, portable …

This article presents a compact analog front-end (AFE) circuit for ultrasound receivers with
linear-in-dB continuous gain control for time-gain compensation (TGC). The AFE consists of …

This brief presents a compact variable gain amplifier (VGA) with continuous time-gain
compensation (TGC) for ultrasound imaging. The proposed VGA utilizes an open-loop …

This article presents a fully integrated pitch-matched piezoelectric micromachined ultrasonic
transducers (PMUTs)-on-CMOS array with high potential in catheter-based ultrasound …

This paper presents a low power CMOS programmable gain amplifier (PGA) utilizing a novel
gm‐boosting technique to increase the maximum achievable DC gain. The structure …