Acoustic characterization of a miniature matrix transducer for pediatric 3D transesophageal echocardiography

This paper presents the design, fabrication and characterization of a miniature PZT-on-CMOS matrix transducer for real-time pediatric 3-dimensional (3D) transesophageal echocardiography (TEE). This 3D TEE probe consists of a 32  × 32 array of PZT elements integrated on top of an Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC). We propose a partitioned transmit/receive array architecture wherein the 8 × 8 transmitter elements, located at the centre of the array, are directly wired out and the remaining receive elem ents are grouped into 96 sub-arrays of 3 × 3 elements.

Source: Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology - July 30, 2018 Category: Radiology Authors: Verya Daeichin, Deep Bera, Shreyas Raghunathan, Maysam Shabani Motlagh, Zhao Chen, Chao Chen, Emile Noothout, Hendrik J. Vos, Michiel Pertijs, Johan G. Bosch, Nico de Jong, Martin Verweij Tags: Original Contribution Source Type: research