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- 2013Integrated Circuits for Volumetric Ultrasound Imaging With 2-D CMUT Arrayscitations
- 20103-D Deep Penetration Photoacoustic Imaging with a 2-D CMUT Array.
- 2010Miniaturized Ultrasound Imaging Probes Enabled by CMUT Arrays with Integrated Frontend Electronic Circuits
- 2009Three-Dimensional Photoacoustic Imaging Using a Two-Dimensional CMUT Arraycitations
- 2009An Integrated Circuit With Transmit Beamforming Flip-Chip Bonded to a 2-D CMUT Array for 3-D Ultrasound Imagingcitations
- 2009Wafer-Bonded 2-D CMUT Arrays Incorporating Through-Wafer Trench-Isolated Interconnects with a Supporting Framecitations
- 2008Integration of 2D CMUT arrays with front-end electronics for volumetric ultrasound imagingcitations
- 2007Integration of trench-isolated through-wafer interconnects with 2d capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducer arrayscitations
- 20063-D ultrasound imaging using a forward-looking CMUT ring array for intravascular/intracardiac applications
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Three-Dimensional Photoacoustic Imaging Using a Two-Dimensional CMUT Array
Abstract
In this paper, we describe using a 2-D array of capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducers (CMUTs) to perform 3-D photoacoustic and acoustic imaging. A tunable optical parametric oscillator laser system that generates nanosecond laser pulses was used to induce the photoacoustic signals. To demonstrate the feasibility of the system, 2 different phantoms were imaged. The first phantom consisted of alternating black and transparent fishing lines of 180 mum and 150 mum diameter, respectively. The second phantom comprised polyethylene tubes, embedded in chicken breast tissue, filled with liquids such as the dye indocyanine green, pig blood, and a mixture of the 2. The tubes were embedded at a depth of 0.8 cm inside the tissue and were at an overall distance of 1.8 cm from the CMUT array. Two-dimensional cross-sectional slices and 3-D volume rendered images of pulse-echo data as well as photoacoustic data are presented. The profile and beamwidths of the fishing line are analyzed and compared with a numerical simulation carried out using the Field II ultrasound simulation software. We investigated using a large aperture (64 x 64 element array) to perform photoacoustic and acoustic imaging by mechanically scanning a smaller CMUT array (16 x 16 elements). Two-dimensional transducer arrays overcome many of the limitations of a mechanically scanned system and enable volumetric imaging. Advantages of CMUT technology for photoacoustic imaging include the ease of integration with electronics, ability to fabricate large, fully populated 2-D arrays with arbitrary geometries, wide-bandwidth arrays and high-frequency arrays. A CMUT based photoacoustic system is proposed as a viable alternative to a piezoelectric transducer based photoacoustic systems.