Recent Advances in Ultrasound Sensors and Electronics for Medical Imaging Applications
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Intelligent Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 May 2024 | Viewed by 2717
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Recent progresses in developing ultrasound sensors and electronics for medical imaging applications have been outstanding. Developing advanced ultrasound sensors has been an active research topic with ever-challenging and pioneering technical requirements (e.g., sensitivity improvements, matrix array design, bandwidth enhancements, and micromachined transducer technology). Concurrently, various electronic solutions, such as application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) or field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), have been developed to deal with advanced imaging technologies and ultrafast imaging processing. The emergence of these revolutionary hardware designs enables medical ultrasound imaging based on conventional cart-based scanners to evolve to new form factors, e.g., hand-held point-of-care scanners, real-time 3-D probes, and imaging catheters. This Special Issue aims to publish original manuscripts and the latest research focusing on design of transducer array and interfacing electronics that enable next-generation ultrasound devices and innovative imaging techniques.
In this Special Issue, we are looking forward to receiving papers on a wide range of research topics, including, but not limited to, the following themes.
- Ultrasound transducer modeling, materials, and structures
- Matrix transducer array designs and fabrications
- Design of ultrasound ASICs for specific applications
- Co-integration of transducer array and electronics
- Implementation of ultrasound systems, including pulse excitation, impedance matching, analog signal conditioning, digitization, beamforming, and digital signal processing
Dr. Taehoon Kim
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- acoustic signal processing
- ultrasound transducer array
- front-end electronics
- application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs)
- field-programmable gate array (FPGA)
- beamforming
- next-generation ultrasound probe
- ultrasound imaging system
- volumetric imaging
