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Article Dans Une Revue IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control Année : 2015

A cMUT Probe for Ultrasound-Guided Focused Ultrasound Targeted Therapy

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Ultrasound-mediated targeted therapy represents a promising strategy in the arsenal of modern therapy. Capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducer (cMUT) technology could overcome some difficulties encountered by traditional piezoelectric transducers. In this study, we report on the design, fabrication, and characterization of an ultrasound-guided focused ultrasound (USgFUS) cMUT probe dedicated to preclinical evaluation of targeted therapy (hyperthermia, thermosensitive liposomes activation, and sonoporation) at low frequency (1 MHz) with simultaneous ultrasonic imaging and guidance (15 to 20 MHz). The probe embeds two types of cMUT arrays to perform the modalities of targeted therapy and imaging respectively. The wafer-bonding process flow employed for the manufacturing of the cMUTs is reported. One of its main features is the possibility of implementing two different gap heights on the same wafer. All the design and characterization steps of the devices are described and discussed, starting from the array design up to the first in vitro measurements: optical (microscopy) and electrical (impedance) measurements, arrays' electroacoustic responses, focused pressure field mapping (maximum peak-to-peak pressure = 2.5 MPa), and the first B-scan image of a wire-target phantom.
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hal-01814875 , version 1 (13-06-2018)

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Dominique Gross, C. Coutier, M. Legros, Ayache Bouakaz, Dominique Certon. A cMUT Probe for Ultrasound-Guided Focused Ultrasound Targeted Therapy. IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control, 2015, 62 (6), pp.1145-1160. ⟨10.1109/TUFFC.2014.006887⟩. ⟨hal-01814875⟩
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