Applications of capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducers: A comprehensive review

J Joseph, B Ma, BT Khuri-Yakub - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducer (CMUT) was introduced as an alternative to
the piezoelectric thick-film-based transducers in medical imaging applications. Gradually …

Biomedical microwave-induced thermoacoustic imaging

Q Liu, X Liang, W Qi, Y Gong, H Jiang… - Journal of Innovative …, 2022 - World Scientific
Microwave-induced thermoacoustic imaging (MTAI) has emerged as a potential biomedical
imaging modality with over 20-year growth. MTAI typically employs pulsed microwave as the …

Lithium Niobate Piezoelectric Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers for high data-rate intrabody communication

F Pop, B Herrera, M Rinaldi - Nature communications, 2022 - nature.com
In recent years, there has been an increased interest in continuous monitoring of patients
and their Implanted Medical Devices (IMDs) with different wireless technologies such as …

An airborne sonar system for underwater remote sensing and imaging

A Fitzpatrick, A Singhvi, A Arbabian - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
High-resolution imaging and mapping of the ocean and its floor has been limited to less than
5% of the global waters due to technological barriers. Whereas sonar is the primary …

Air-coupled ultrasound detection using capillary-based optical ring resonators

KH Kim, W Luo, C Zhang, C Tian, LJ Guo, X Wang… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
We experimentally demonstrate and theoretically analyze high Q-factor (~ 107) capillary-
based optical ring resonators for non-contact detection of air-coupled ultrasound. Noise …

Focused microwave breast hyperthermia monitored by thermoacoustic imaging: A computational feasibility study applying realistic breast phantoms

L Xu, X Wang - IEEE Journal of Electromagnetics, RF and …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Focused microwave breast hyperthermia (FMBH) represents a newly emerging technique
endowed with advantages of high accuracy and low side effect for treating breast tumors …

Advanced photoacoustic and thermoacoustic sensing and imaging beyond pulsed absorption contrast

F Gao, X Feng, Y Zheng - Journal of Optics, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
In this paper, we review the recent progress in the photoacoustic (PA) and thermoacoustic
(TA) imaging domain. Going beyond the conventional investigation of optical/microwave …

Peak-power-limited frequency-domain microwave-induced thermoacoustic imaging for handheld diagnostic and screening tools

H Nan, A Arbabian - IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Coherent frequency-domain microwave-induced thermoacoustic (TA) imaging is
investigated as an alternative to the traditional pulsed-based TA imaging approaches that …

Microwave-induced thermoacoustic imaging of subcutaneous vasculature with near-field RF excitation

MS Aliroteh, A Arbabian - IEEE Transactions on Microwave …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Imaging of subcutaneous vasculature is of great interest for biometric security and point-of-
care medicine. We investigate the feasibility of microwave-induced thermoacoustic (TA) …

A review of microwave-induced thermoacoustic imaging: Excitation source, data acquisition system and biomedical applications

Y Cui, C Yuan, Z Ji - Journal of Innovative Optical Health Sciences, 2017 - World Scientific
Microwave-induced thermoacoustic imaging (TAI) is a noninvasive modality based on the
differences in microwave absorption of various biological tissues. TAI has been extensively …