Print Email Facebook Twitter Low-Power Receive-Electronics for a Miniature 3D Ultrasound Probe Title Low-Power Receive-Electronics for a Miniature 3D Ultrasound Probe Author Yu, Z. Contributor Meijer, G.C.M. (promotor) De Jong, N. (promotor) Pertijs, M.A.P. (promotor) Faculty Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science Department Microelectronics & Computer Engineering Date 2012-04-02 Abstract This thesis describes the design of a front-end application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC), which will be put into the tip of a miniature ultrasound probe for 3D Trans-Esophageal Echocardiography (TEE). To enable 3D TEE, a matrix piezoelectric ultrasound transducer with more than 2000 elements will be used. Since a gastroscopic tube cannot accommodate the cables needed to connect all the transducer elements directly to an imaging system, local channel-count reduction is necessary. The main task of the ASIC is to provide appropriate signal conditioning in the tip of the probe to achieve channel-count reduction. The main goal of this thesis work is to design such an ASIC using simple, low-power circuits, while still maintaining good image quality. In addition to the electronics design, the interconnection between the matrix transducer and the ASIC is another important parallel research topic. Subject Low-Power Receive-ElectronicsMiniature 3D Ultrasound Probe To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:f116361b-8ff7-4995-a8e5-e5354f2902b9 ISBN 9789461912138 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type doctoral thesis Rights (c) 2012 Yu, Z. Files PDF Z.YU_PhD_thesis_main_text.pdf 6.86 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:f116361b-8ff7-4995-a8e5-e5354f2902b9/datastream/OBJ/view