LightProbe: A digital ultrasound probe for software-defined ultrafast imaging

PA Hager, L Benini - IEEE transactions on ultrasonics …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Digital ultrasound probes integrate the analog front end in the housing of the probe handle
and provide a digital interface instead of requiring an expensive coaxial cable harness to …

Ultrahigh frequency ultrasonic transducers design with low noise amplifier integrated circuit

D Li, C Fei, Q Zhang, Y Li, Y Yang, Q Zhou - Micromachines, 2018 - mdpi.com
This paper describes the design of an ultrahigh frequency ultrasound system combined with
tightly focused 500 MHz ultrasonic transducers and high frequency wideband low noise …

An area-power-efficient AFE with NS-SAR ADC for high-frequency ultrasound applications

Y Wu, S Li, L Luo, F Ye, J Ren - 2020 IEEE Asia Pacific …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents an integrated ultrasound analog front-end (AFE) featuring wide
bandwidth and high area-power-efficiency, which is suitable for high-frequency ultrasound …

Enabling Ultra-Low Power Ultrasound Imaging with Compute-in-Memory Sparse Reconstruction Accelerator

W Li, X Zhang, J Lee, FL Degertekin… - 2023 IEEE Biomedical …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Medical ultrasound has played an integral role in the diagnosis of diseases over the past
decades. Low power consumption of portable ultrasound is critical for its application in …

A 128-ch Δ-Σ ADC based mixed signal IC for full digital beamforming Wireless handheld Ultrasound imaging system

MK Chirala, P Huynh, J Ryu… - 2015 37th Annual …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper reports a massively integrated Δ-Σ ADC based mixed signal chipset for a
handheld Wireless Ultrasound imaging system. The IC has been fabricated in a standard …

A High-Dynamic-Range Ultrasound Receiver with Dual-Mode Time Gain Compensation

GY Chen, TH Tsai - IEEE Sensors Letters, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This letter presents a dual-mode continuous and discrete time-gain compensation (TCG)
ultrasound receive system implemented in a 180 nm CMOS process. In this system, when …

A large dynamic range voltage controlled attenuator with improved linearity‐in‐dB for ultrasound applications

D Li, C Fei, Y Li, Q Zhang… - International Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
A large dynamic range (DR) and high linearity‐in‐dB voltage controlled attenuator (VCAT)
for ultrasound applications was presented. Continuous tunable VCAT implemented with …

Echo Signal Receiving and Data Conversion Integrated Circuits for Portable High-Frequency Ultrasonic Imaging System

D Li, W Cheng, X Cui, D Chen, C Fei… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ultrasonic imaging has become a very promising technology, and it has been widely applied
in biomedicine, geology, and other fields due to its advantages of safety, nondamaging, and …

[PDF][PDF] Design of Fully-Digital Medical Ultrasound Imaging Systems

PA Hager - 2019 - research-collection.ethz.ch
Ultrasound imaging is still one of the most used clinical imaging modalities thanks to its real-
time output, its ease-of-use, its portability and low cost, and also because it is safe to use, as …

[PDF][PDF] Comparative Analysis of Complexity-Image Quality Trade-offs in Ultrasound Systems for Efficient Hardware Implementation

Z Alzein, A Ibrahim, M Crocco, M Merlanti, DD Caviglia - avestia.com
This paper presents a comprehensive investigation into the hardware design considerations
for focused transmit ultrasound systems, focusing on the trade-off between image quality …