Advances in capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducers

K Brenner, AS Ergun, K Firouzi, MF Rasmussen… - Micromachines, 2019 - mdpi.com
Capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducer (CMUT) technology has enjoyed rapid
development in the last decade. Advancements both in fabrication and integration, coupled …

Image-guided ultrasound phased arrays are a disruptive technology for non-invasive therapy

K Hynynen, RM Jones - Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Focused ultrasound offers a non-invasive way of depositing acoustic energy deep into the
body, which can be harnessed for a broad spectrum of therapeutic purposes, including …

3D transcranial ultrasound localization microscopy in the rat brain with a multiplexed matrix probe

A Chavignon, B Heiles, V Hingot… - IEEE Transactions …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Objective: Ultrasound Localization Microscopy (ULM) provides images of the
microcirculation in-depth in living tissue. However, its implementation in two-dimension is …

Anatomic and functional imaging using row–column arrays

JA Jensen, M Schou, LT Jørgensen… - IEEE transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Row–column (RC) arrays have the potential to yield full 3-D ultrasound imaging with a
greatly reduced number of elements compared to fully populated arrays. They, however …

Intraoperative functional ultrasound imaging of human brain activity

M Imbault, D Chauvet, JL Gennisson, L Capelle… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
The functional mapping of brain activity is essential to perform optimal glioma surgery and to
minimize the risk of postoperative deficits. We introduce a new, portable neuroimaging …

3-D imaging using row-column-addressed arrays with integrated apodization-part i: apodization design and line element beamforming

MF Rasmussen, TL Christiansen… - IEEE transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper investigates the effect of transducerintegrated apodization in row–column-
addressed arrays and presents a beamforming approach specific for such arrays. Row …

Experimental 3-D ultrasound imaging with 2-D sparse arrays using focused and diverging waves

E Roux, F Varray, L Petrusca, C Cachard, P Tortoli… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Three dimensional ultrasound (3-D US) imaging methods based on 2-D array probes are
increasingly investigated. However, the experimental test of new 3-D US approaches is …

Sparse convolutional beamforming for ultrasound imaging

R Cohen, YC Eldar - IEEE transactions on ultrasonics …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The standard technique used by commercial medical ultrasound systems to form B-mode
images is delay and sum (DAS) beamforming. However, DAS often results in limited image …

Three-dimensional super-resolution imaging using a row–column array

JA Jensen, ML Ommen, SH Øygard… - IEEE transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A 3-D super-resolution (SR) pipeline based on data from a row-column (RC) array is
presented. The 3-MHz RC array contains 62 rows and 62 columns with a half wavelength …

Ultrafast 3-D ultrasound imaging using row–column array-specific frame-multiply-and-sum beamforming

J Hansen-Shearer, M Lerendegui… - IEEE Transactions …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Row–column arrays have been shown to be able to generate 3-D ultrafast ultrasound
images with an order of magnitude less independent electronic channels than traditional 2 …