As traditional ultrasonic imaging systems (UIS) are expensive, bulky, and power-consuming,
miniaturized and portable UIS have been developed and widely utilized in the biomedical …

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 …

This paper presents an area-and power-efficient application-specified integrated circuit
(ASIC) for 3-D forward-looking intravascular ultrasound imaging. The ASIC is intended to be …

This paper presents a power-and area-efficient approach to digitizing the echo signals
received by piezoelectric transducer elements, commonly used for ultrasound imaging. This …

This paper presents a 16-channel 14bit 50MS/s ADC designed with a 0.18 μm process,
used in integrated ultrasound imaging systems. The design considerations of stage …

This paper presents a calibration-free, 16-channel, 14-bit, 50-MS/s, pipelined successive
approximation register (pipelined-SAR) analog-to-digital converter (ADC) for ultrasound …

In this paper, a novel, low power, 16-bit, 9.84 fJ/conv-step FOM, reconfigurable, hybrid SAR-
sigma delta ADC is presented. The ADC has been designed and implemented with two …

Ultrasonic transducers capable of operating over multiple frequency bands could have
several interesting medical applications including multi-resolution multi-depth imaging for …

Starting from an overview of historical aspects of biomedical ultrasound development and its
application areas, as well as the brief description of state-of-the art microfabrication …