Design, characterization and test of a multi-transmitters, multi-receivers probe based on cMUTs for cortical bone evaluation

Author

Boulme, Audren ; Minonzio, Jean-Gabriel ; Ngo, S. ; Legros, Mathieu ; Senegond, N. ; Perroteau, Marie ; Ferin, Guillaume ; Talmant, Maryline ; Laugier, Pascal ; Alquier, D. ; Teston, F. ; Certon, Dominique

Author_Institution

Univ. Francois Rabelais de Tours, Tours, France

fYear

2012

fDate

7-10 Oct. 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

This paper presents the conception of a cMUTs probe for the cortical bone evaluation. A specific topology was designed in order to match the cMUTs technology to the requirements of the axial transmission measurement. We report here all the steps of the probe manufacturing from the design to the first postprocess characterization of the cMUTs. The first results of axial transmission measurements performed on a bone mimicking plate are presented and compared with the ones obtained with the same probe in PZT technology.

Keywords

acoustic receivers; biomedical transducers; biomedical ultrasonics; biomimetics; bone; topology; PZT technology; axial transmission measurement; axial transmission probe topology; bone mimicking plate; cMUT probe manufacturing; cMUT technology; cortical bone evaluation; multireceiver probe; multitransmitter probe; Acoustic measurements; Acoustics; Arrays; Bones; Probes; Receivers; Voltage measurement; Axial Transmission Mesurements; Cortical Bone; Guided Waves; cMUT;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), 2012 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Dresden

ISSN

1948-5719

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-4561-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ULTSYM.2012.0458

Filename

6562277