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Boertje, Puck (author)With today’s aging population and the prevalence of chronic illnesses, healthcare systems worldwide are struggling to accommodate the increasing number of patients. This projected growth and rising demand underscore the importance of advancing wearable devices. In the realm of diagnostic healthcare, the pursuit of non-invasive and safe...master thesis 2023
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Spruit, John (author)With recent advancements in autonomous driving, the demand for precise and accurate perception systems has increased. Perception of the vehicle’s environment is a key element in ensuring safe operation. Due to their wide aperture angle and low cost, ultrasonic sensors are a viable option for achieving close-range 360° perception around the...master thesis 2023
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Ossenkoppele, B.W. (author)High-frame-rate volumetric ultrasound imaging is highly desired to enable novel clinical ultrasound applications. However, realizing high-quality volumetric ultrasound imaging at a high frame rates (>500 Hz) is challenging. Keeping the cable count and data rate of the transducer device at a realistic level without sacrificing image quality to...doctoral thesis 2023
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Rodrigues, Estevão P. (author), Simoes dos Santos, D. (author), Buiochi, Flávio (author)The measurement of acoustic fields generated by ultrasonic transducers is important for determining the focal length, lateral resolution, and amplitudes of the lateral and grating lobes. The acoustic field is commonly characterized by a set of scans using a needle hydrophone. The output of the hydrophone can be connected to an analog filter to...journal article 2023
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Dutta, S. (author), Bieling, T.J. (author), Verbiest, G.J. (author)Fluid flow processes such as drainage and evaporation in porous media are crucial in geological and biological systems. The motion of the displacement front of a moving fluid through multi-phase interfaces is often associated with abrupt mechanical energy release, detectable as acoustic emissions (AEs). The exact origin of these pulses and...journal article 2023
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Holzapfel, L.F.M. (author), Giagka, Vasiliki (author)Implantable devices need to communicate information to the outside world. For deep-seated miniaturized implants ultrasound communication can be favourable. However, implants need to operate during movement, and the selected communication scheme should be assessed accordingly. In this work, we implemented a simple protocol to transfer data...conference paper 2023
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Bieling, Thijs (author)Evaporation can induce acoustic emissions in microfluidic devices. The origin of these emissions and their damping remains elusive. This thesis studies acoustic emissions from 3D printed microfluidic tubes mimicking xylem vessels in plants. We show the time and frequency domain signature of these emissions. From these signatures, we identify...master thesis 2022
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Vermeulen, Mark (author)Current research on osteoporosis detection and transcranial imaging suggests that it is necessary to find a method to calculate the speed of sound in curved bones. A popular method to find the speed of sound in bones is by the bidirectional axial transmission technique. Currently, this method assumes that the arrival time of the head wave...bachelor thesis 2022
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Boerkamp, Christiaan (author)Neuromodulation of the vagus nerve is used as a treatment for all kinds of ailments and even as a means of improving the wearer's physiology, however, this form of treatment is not popular due to its invasive nature, high chance of side effects, and short period between reimplementation surgery, as such an alternative is sought in the form of...master thesis 2022
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Hopf, Y.M. (author), Ossenkoppele, B.W. (author), Soozande, M. (author), Noothout, E.C. (author), Chang, Z.Y. (author), Vos, H.J. (author), Bosch, Johan G. (author), Verweij, M.D. (author), de Jong, N. (author), Pertijs, M.A.P. (author)In this letter, a compact high-voltage (HV) transmit circuit for dense 2-D transducer arrays used in 3-D ultrasonic imaging systems is presented. Stringent area requirements are addressed by a unipolar pulser with embedded transmit/receive switch. Combined with a capacitive HV level shifter, it forms the ultrasonic HV...journal article 2022
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Lattwein, K.R. (author), Beekers, Inés (author), Kouijzer, Joop J.P. (author), Leon-Grooters, Mariël (author), Langeveld, Simone A.G. (author), van Rooij, Tom (author), van der Steen, A.F.W. (author), de Jong, N. (author), van Wamel, Willem J.B. (author), Kooiman, Klazina (author)Bacteria encased in a biofilm poses significant challenges to successful treatment, since both the immune system and antibiotics are ineffective. Sonobactericide, which uses ultrasound and microbubbles, is a potential new strategy for increasing antimicrobial effectiveness or directly killing bacteria. Several studies suggest that...journal article 2022
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Chen, Peiran (author), Calis, Metin (author), Wijkstra, Hessel (author), Huang, Pintong (author), Hunyadi, Borbala (author), Mischi, Massimo (author)A cost-effective, widely available, and practical diagnostic imaging tool for prostate cancer (PCa) localization is still lacking. Recently, the contrast-ultrasound dispersion imaging (CUDI) technique has been developed for PCa localization by quantifying dynamic contrast-enhanced ultrasound (DCE-US) acquisitions. Tissue stiffness is an...conference paper 2022
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Spierings, Jan (author)In orthopaedic and dental surgery, bone grafts are used by surgeons as substitutes for the patient’s own bone. A bone graft provides support to the skeletal structure and stimulates the ingrowth of new bone. There is a growing demand for bone grafts due to an increasing world population and an ageing demographic. Tissue banks produce bone grafts...master thesis 2021
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Yang, Xinyu (author)The main objective of this thesis is to design a transmitter channel which is implemented in a 2D phased-array ultrasound neuromodulation system aiming for the vagus nerve stimulation. The vagus nerve has the widest distribution in the parasympathetic system and it oversees several important bodily functions such as the control of mood, immune...master thesis 2021
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Siddiqi, M.A. (author), Beurskens, Robert H.S.H. (author), Kruizinga, Pieter (author), De Zeeuw, Chris I. (author), Strydis, C. (author)Modern Implantable Medical Devices (IMDs) are vulnerable to security attacks because of their wireless connectivity to the outside world. One of the main security challenges is establishing trust between the IMD and an external reader/programmer in order to facilitate secure communication. Numerous device-pairing schemes have been proposed to...journal article 2021
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Sánchez-Margallo, Juan A. (author), Tas, L. (author), Moelker, Adriaan (author), van den Dobbelsteen, J.J. (author), Sánchez-Margallo, Francisco M. (author), Langø, Thomas (author), van Walsum, T. (author), van de Berg, N.J. (author)Purpose: To present a novel methodical approach to compare visibility of percutaneous needles in ultrasound images. Methods: A motor-driven rotation platform was used to gradually change the needle angle while capturing image data. Data analysis was automated using block-matching-based registration, with a tracking and refinement step. Every...journal article 2021
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de Maar, Josanne S. (author), Rousou, Charis (author), van Elburg, Benjamin (author), Vos, H.J. (author), Lajoinie, Guillaume P.R. (author), Bos, Clemens (author), Moonen, Chrit T.W. (author), Deckers, Roel (author)Chemotherapy efficacy is often reduced by insufficient drug uptake in tumor cells. The combination of ultrasound and microbubbles (USMB) has been shown to improve drug delivery and to enhance the efficacy of several drugs in vitro and in vivo, through effects collectively known as sonopermeation. However, clinical translation of USMB therapy...journal article 2021
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van Willigen, D.M. (author), Kang, E. (author), Janjic, Jovana (author), Noothout, E.C. (author), Chang, Z.Y. (author), Verweij, M.D. (author), de Jong, N. (author), Pertijs, M.A.P. (author)This article presents an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) designed for intra-vascular ultrasound imaging that interfaces 64 piezoelectric transducer elements to an imaging system using a single micro-coaxial cable. Thus, it allows a single-element transducer to be replaced by a transducer array to enable 3-D imaging. The 1.5-mm...journal article 2021
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Guvenir Torun, Su (author), Torun, Hakki M. (author), Hansen, Hendrik H.G. (author), Gandini, Giulia (author), Berselli, Irene (author), Codazzi, Veronica (author), de Korte, Chris L. (author), van der Steen, A.F.W. (author), Migliavacca, Francesco (author), Chiastra, Claudio (author), Akyildiz, A.C. (author)Atherosclerotic plaque rupture in coronary arteries, an important trigger of myocardial infarction, is shown to correlate with high levels of pressure-induced mechanical stresses in plaques. Finite element (FE) analyses are commonly used for plaque stress assessment. However, the required information of heterogenous material properties of...journal article 2021