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ReviewMicromachines2023

Recent Advances in Flexible Ultrasonic Transducers: From Materials Optimization to Imaging Applications.

Danyang Ren, Yonggang Yin, Chiye Li, Ruimin Chen, Junhui Shi

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Review in Micromachines, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Danyang RenResearch Center for Humanoid Sensing, Zhejiang Laboratory, Hangzhou 311100, China.
Yonggang YinResearch Center for Humanoid Sensing, Zhejiang Laboratory, Hangzhou 311100, China.ORCID 0000-0001-6782-9495
Chiye LiResearch Center for Humanoid Sensing, Zhejiang Laboratory, Hangzhou 311100, China.
Ruimin ChenResearch Center for Humanoid Sensing, Zhejiang Laboratory, Hangzhou 311100, China.ORCID 0000-0002-5338-359X
Junhui ShiResearch Center for Humanoid Sensing, Zhejiang Laboratory, Hangzhou 311100, China.

Funding

Key Research Project of Zhejiang Lab 2020MC0AD01National Natural Science Foundation of China 62205299Zhejiang Lab Research Funds K2022MG0AL08Zhejiang Provincial Key 630 Research and Development Program 2021C03052Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation LQ22D050003
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Ultrasonic (US) transducers have been widely used in the field of ultrasonic and photoacoustic imaging system in recent years, to convert acoustic and electrical signals into each other. As the core part of imaging systems, US transducers have been extensively studied and achieved remarkable progress recently. Imaging systems employing conventional rigid US transducers impose certain constraints, such as not being able to conform to complex surfaces and comfortably come into contact with skin and the sample, and meet the applications of continuous monitoring and diagnosis. To overcome these drawbacks, significant effort has been made in transforming the rigid US transducers to become flexible and wearable. Flexible US transducers ensure self-alignment to complex surfaces and maximize the transferred US energy, resulting in high quality detection performance. The advancement in flexible US transducers has further extended the application range of imaging systems. This review is intended to summarize the most recent advances in flexible US transducers, including advanced functional materials optimization, representative US transducers designs and practical applications in imaging systems. Additionally, the potential challenges and future directions of the development of flexible US transducers are also discussed.

Indexed as

flexible array ultrasonic transducerflexible micromachined ultrasonic transducerflexible single-element ultrasonic transducerflexible ultrasonic transducerfunctional materialsimaging application

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PMID36677187
PMCPMC9866268

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