Designing and fabricating a capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducer for use in a novel photoacoustic microscope
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- In this thesis I present my work designing and fabricating a capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducer (CMUT) for use in a novel photo-acoustic microscope. The CMUT device was designed to fit on the end of our collaborators' miniature fluorescent dual-axis confocal microscope to further increase the usefulness of the tool. Adding photo-acoustic imaging to the miniature fluorescent microscope eliminates the need for a fluorescent dye used specifically to identify vasculature. This allows dyes to be optimized to target tumor specific biomarkers to aid diagnosis and boundary definition. The device was designed so it could be packaged into a number of form factors for either handheld use or endoscopic screening. This is an important step for photo-acoustic microscopy because current laboratory systems are bulky and impractical for clinical use. Due to the advantages of the CMUT technology we were able to use a novel architecture to create a compact system.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2016 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Cristman, Paul F |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Electrical Engineering. |
| Primary advisor | Khuri-Yakub, Butrus T, 1948- |
| Thesis advisor | Khuri-Yakub, Butrus T, 1948- |
| Thesis advisor | Contag, Christopher H |
| Thesis advisor | Solgaard, Olav |
| Advisor | Contag, Christopher H |
| Advisor | Solgaard, Olav |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Paul F. Cristman. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Electrical Engineering. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2016. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2016 by Paul F. Cristman
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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