Title:  Reduced-wire Readout Systems for High Frequency Intravascular Ultrasound Imaging

Committee:

Dr. Maysam Ghovanloo, ECE, Chair , Advisor

Dr. Levent Degertekin, ECE

Dr. Farrokh Ayazi, ECE

Dr. Gabriel Rincon-Mora, ECE

Dr. Steven Freear, Univ of Leeds

Abstract:

The objective of the proposed research is to minimize and integrate intravascular ultrasound imaging (IVUS) system on a guidewire and to develop wireless data communication for general capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducer (CMUT) based ultrasound imaging system. Several innovative system- and circuit-level techniques are proposed towards the development of CMUT modeling, optimizing front-end circuits, wireless data communication, and inductive power transmission to reduce the system size and the required number of interconnections.