TY - JOUR
T1 - Single-Crystal High-Frequency Intravascular Ultrasound Transducer with 40-\mu m Axial Resolution
AU - Ma, Xiaowen
AU - Cao, Wenwu
N1 - Funding Information:
Manuscript received July 29, 2019; accepted November 21, 2019. Date of publication November 28, 2019; date of current version March 25, 2020. This work was supported by the Shanghai Science and Technology Committee through the Shanghai Sailing Program under Grant 17YF1405300. (Corresponding author: Wenwu Cao.) X. Ma is with the School of Life Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150080, China.
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PY - 2020/4
Y1 - 2020/4
N2 - Intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) is one of the most useful tools available today to assist intravascular stenting procedures. Having higher resolution is very important for helping doctors to evaluate the nature of atherosclerotic plaques. The current commercial IVUS systems have a spatial resolution of 70- 200~\mu \text{m} in the axial direction and 200- 400~\mu \text{m} in the lateral direction, which are insufficient for accurate diagnosis. We report here a three-matching-layer IVUS transducer design using a 0.72Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3O3 - 0.28PbTiO3 single crystal, which can improve the axial resolution to 40~\mu \text{m} without sacrificing the penetration depth. Wire phantom imaging and in vitro porcine coronary artery imaging show noticeably better axial resolution and similar penetration depth compared with a commercial IVUS transducer.
AB - Intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) is one of the most useful tools available today to assist intravascular stenting procedures. Having higher resolution is very important for helping doctors to evaluate the nature of atherosclerotic plaques. The current commercial IVUS systems have a spatial resolution of 70- 200~\mu \text{m} in the axial direction and 200- 400~\mu \text{m} in the lateral direction, which are insufficient for accurate diagnosis. We report here a three-matching-layer IVUS transducer design using a 0.72Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3O3 - 0.28PbTiO3 single crystal, which can improve the axial resolution to 40~\mu \text{m} without sacrificing the penetration depth. Wire phantom imaging and in vitro porcine coronary artery imaging show noticeably better axial resolution and similar penetration depth compared with a commercial IVUS transducer.
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U2 - 10.1109/TUFFC.2019.2956603
DO - 10.1109/TUFFC.2019.2956603
M3 - Article
C2 - 31794395
AN - SCOPUS:85082561586
VL - 67
SP - 810
EP - 816
JO - IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control
JF - IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control
SN - 0885-3010
IS - 4
M1 - 8917674
ER -