Real-time 3-D ultrasound guidance of interventional devices.
We have previously developed 2-D array transducers for many real-time volumetric imaging applications. These applications include transducers operating up to 7 MHz for transthoracic imaging, up to 15 MHz for intracardiac echocardiography (ICE), 5 MHz for transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) and intracranial imaging, and 7 MHz for laparoscopic ultrasound imaging (LUS). Now we have developed a new generation of miniature ring-array transducers integrated into the catheter deployment kits of interventional devices to enable real-time 3-D ultrasound scanning for improved guidance of minimally invasive procedures. We have constructed 3 new ring transducers. The first consists of 54 elements operating at 5 MHz. Typical measured transducer element bandwidth was 25%, and the 50 Ohm round trip insertion loss was -65 dB. Average nearest neighbor cross talk was -23.8 dB. The second is a prototype 108-element transducer operating at 5 MHz. The third is a prototype 108-element ring array with a transducer center frequency of 8.9 MHz and a -6 dB bandwidth of 25%. All transducers were integrated with an 8.5 French catheter sheath of a Cook Medical, Inc. vena cava filter deployment device.
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- Vena Cava Filters
- Ultrasonography, Interventional
- Surgery, Computer-Assisted
- Phantoms, Imaging
- Imaging, Three-Dimensional
- Humans
- Equipment Failure Analysis
- Equipment Design
- Catheterization, Central Venous
- Acoustics
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Published In
DOI
EISSN
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Publication Date
Volume
Issue
Start / End Page
Related Subject Headings
- Vena Cava Filters
- Ultrasonography, Interventional
- Surgery, Computer-Assisted
- Phantoms, Imaging
- Imaging, Three-Dimensional
- Humans
- Equipment Failure Analysis
- Equipment Design
- Catheterization, Central Venous
- Acoustics