Review of Laser-Generated Ultrasound Transmitters and Their Applications to All-Optical Ultrasound Transducers and Imaging

Medical ultrasound is an imaging technique that utilizes ultrasonic signals as information carriers, and has wide applications such as seeing internal body structures, finding a source of a disease, and examining pregnant women. The most commonly used ultrasonic transducer today is based on piezoele...

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Main Author: Sung-Liang Chen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2016-12-01
Series:Applied Sciences
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/7/1/25