NDLI: Miniaturizing Ultrasonic System for Portable Health Care and Fitness

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Hao-Yen Tang Dongjin Seo Singhal, U. Xi Li Maharbiz, M.M. Alon, E. Boser, B.E.
Copyright Year	2007
Abstract	We present a miniaturized portable ultrasonic imager that uses a custom ASIC and a piezoelectric transducer array to transmit and capture 2-D sonographs. The ASIC, fabricated in 0.18 μm 32 V CMOS process, contains 7 identical channels, each with high-voltage level-shifters, high-voltage DC-DC converters, digital TX beamformer, and RX front-end. The chip is powered by a single 1.8 V supply and generates 5 V and 32 V internally using on-chip charge pumps with an efficiency of 33% to provide 32 V pulses for driving a bulk piezoelectric transducer array. The assembled prototype can operate up to 40 MHz, with beamformer delay resolution of 5 ns, and has a measured sensitivity of 225 nV/Pa , minimum detectable signal of 622 Pa assuming 12 dB SNR ( 4σ larger than the noise level), and data acquisition time of 21.3 ms. The system can image human tissue as deep as 5 cm while consuming less than 16.5 μJ per pulse-echo measurement. The high energy efficiency of the imager can enable a number of consumer applications.
Sponsorship	IEEE Circuits and Systems Society IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
Starting Page	767
Ending Page	776
Page Count	10
File Size	2563828
File Format	PDF
ISSN	19324545
Volume Number	9
Issue Number	6
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2015-01-01
Publisher Place	U.S.A.
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Piezoelectric transducers Application specific integrated circuits CMOS technology Ultrasonic imaging Charge pumps Power demand ultrasonic imager Fitness tracking high-voltage generation in-vivo 2-D ultrasound
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Electrical and Electronic Engineering Biomedical Engineering

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1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
2	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	Host Institute of the Project: The host institute of the project is responsible for providing infrastructure support and hosting the project	https://www.iitkgp.ac.in
3	National Digital Library of India Office, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	The administrative and infrastructural headquarters of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in
4	Project PI / Joint PI	Principal Investigator and Joint Principal Investigators of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in Prof. Saswat Chakrabarti will be added soon
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