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AssigneeUniversity of Southern California
InventorsJesse T. Yen, Jong-Seob Jeong, Chi-Hyung Seo, Samer Awad
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Dual-layer acoustic transducer array designs, related fabrication methods, and ultrasound imaging techniques are described. The designs include two perpendicular 1-D arrays for clinical 3-D acoustic imaging of targets near the transducer. These targets can include the breast, carotid artery, prostate, and musculoskeletal system among others. The transducer designs reduce the fabrication complexity and the channel count making 3-D rectilinear imaging more realizable. With such designs, an effective N×N 2-D array can be developed using only N transmitters and N receivers. This benefit becomes very significant when N becomes greater than 128, for example. Embodiments/aspects of the present disclosure are directed to fabricating and interconnecting 2-D arrays with a large number of elements (>5,000) for 3-D rectilinear imaging.
A dual layer acoustic transducer array comprising:
A method of fabricating a dual-layer transducer array for acoustic imaging, the method comprising:
A method of ultrasound imaging comprising:
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