Overview of ultrasound detection technologies for photoacoustic imaging

R Manwar, K Kratkiewicz, K Avanaki - Micromachines, 2020 - mdpi.com
Ultrasound detection is one of the major components of photoacoustic imaging systems.
Advancement in ultrasound transducer technology has a significant impact on the translation …

Ultrasound open platforms for next-generation imaging technique development

E Boni, CH Alfred, S Freear, JA Jensen… - IEEE transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Open platform (OP) ultrasound systems are aimed primarily at the research community. They
have been at the forefront of the development of synthetic aperture, plane wave, shear wave …

[HTML][HTML] cMUT technology developments

CD Herickhoff, R van Schaijk - Zeitschrift für Medizinische Physik, 2023 - Elsevier
Capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducer (cMUT) technology has steadily advanced
since its advent in the mid-1990's. Though cMUTs have not supplanted piezoelectric …

A Front-End ASIC With Receive Sub-array Beamforming Integrated With a PZT Matrix Transducer for 3-D Transesophageal Echocardiography

C Chen, Z Chen, D Bera… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a power-and area-efficient front-end application-specific integrated
circuit (ASIC) that is directly integrated with an array of 32× 32 piezoelectric transducer …

A pitch-matched front-end ASIC with integrated subarray beamforming ADC for miniature 3-D ultrasound probes

C Chen, Z Chen, D Bera, E Noothout… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a front-end application-specified integrated circuit (ASIC) integrated
with a 2-D PZT matrix transducer that enables in-probe digitization with acceptable power …

A pitch-matched transceiver ASIC with shared hybrid beamforming ADC for high-frame-rate 3-D intracardiac echocardiography

YM Hopf, BW Ossenkoppele… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

A pitch-matched high-frame-rate ultrasound imaging ASIC for catheter-based 3-D probes

YM Hopf, DS dos Santos… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) for catheter-based 3-D
ultrasound imaging probes. The pitch-matched design implements a comprehensive …

A reduced-wire ICE catheter ASIC with Tx beamforming and Rx time-division multiplexing

G Jung, C Tekes, MW Rashid… - IEEE transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a single chip reduced-wire active catheter application-specific
integrated circuit (ASIC), equipped with programmable transmit (Tx) beamforming and …

An 80.2 dB DR 23.25 mW/channel 8-channel ultrasound receiver with a beamforming embedded SAR ADC

T Kim, S Shin, S Kim - … Transactions on Circuits and Systems II …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An 8-channel ultrasound receiver compatible with in-probe electronics for 3-D ultrasound
imaging is proposed. It has eight analog front-ends for signal conditioning and a …

[HTML][HTML] An Ultrasound Matrix Transducer for High-Frame-Rate 3-D Intra-cardiac Echocardiography

DS Dos Santos, B Ossenkoppele, YM Hopf… - Ultrasound in Medicine …, 2024 - Elsevier
Objective Described here is the development of an ultrasound matrix transducer prototype
for high-frame-rate 3-D intra-cardiac echocardiography. Methods The matrix array consists …