TY - JOUR
T1 - A Photoacoustic Imaging Device Using Piezoelectric Micromachined Ultrasound Transducers (PMUTs)
AU - Dangi, Ajay
AU - Cheng, Christopher Y.
AU - Agrawal, Sumit
AU - Tiwari, Sudhanshu
AU - Datta, Gaurav Ramesh
AU - Benoit, Robert R.
AU - Pratap, Rudra
AU - Trolier-Mckinstry, Susan
AU - Kothapalli, Sri Rajasekhar
N1 - Funding Information:
Manuscript received October 21, 2019; revised November 20, 2019; accepted November 24, 2019. Date of publication November 27, 2019; date of current version March 25, 2020. This work was supported by the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB), USA, under Grant R00EB017729-04 (SRK). The work of C. Y. Cheng was supported by the Department of Defense (DoD) through the National Defense Science & Engineering Graduate Fellowship (NDSEG) Program. The work of C. Y. Cheng and S. Trolier-McKinstry was supported by the Center for Nanoscale Science, a Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant DMR-1420620. (Ajay Dangi and Christopher Cheng are co-first authors.) (Corresponding author: Sri-Rajasekhar Kothapalli.) A. Dangi and S. Agrawal are with the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802 USA.
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PY - 2020/4
Y1 - 2020/4
N2 - A linear piezoelectric micromachined ultrasound transducer (PMUT) array was fabricated and integrated into a device for photoacoustic imaging (PAI) of tissue phantoms. The PMUT contained 65 array elements, with each element having 60 diaphragms of 60μm diameter and 75μm pitch. A lead zirconate titanate (PZT) thin film was used as the piezoelectric layer. The in-air vibration response of the PMUT array elements showed a first mode resonance between 6 and 8 MHz. Hydrophone measurements showed 16.2 kPa average peak ultrasound pressure output at 7.5 mm from one element excited with 5 Vpp input. A receive sensitivity of ∼0.48 mV/kPa was observed for a PMUT array element with 0 dB gain. The PMUT array was bonded to a custom-printed circuit board to enable compact integration with an optical fiber bundle for PAI. A broad photoacoustic bandwidth of ~89% was observed for the photoacoustic response captured from absorbing pencil lead targets. Linear scanning of a single element of a PMUT array was performed on different tissue phantoms embedded with light-absorbing targets to successfully demonstrate B-mode PAI using PMUTs.
AB - A linear piezoelectric micromachined ultrasound transducer (PMUT) array was fabricated and integrated into a device for photoacoustic imaging (PAI) of tissue phantoms. The PMUT contained 65 array elements, with each element having 60 diaphragms of 60μm diameter and 75μm pitch. A lead zirconate titanate (PZT) thin film was used as the piezoelectric layer. The in-air vibration response of the PMUT array elements showed a first mode resonance between 6 and 8 MHz. Hydrophone measurements showed 16.2 kPa average peak ultrasound pressure output at 7.5 mm from one element excited with 5 Vpp input. A receive sensitivity of ∼0.48 mV/kPa was observed for a PMUT array element with 0 dB gain. The PMUT array was bonded to a custom-printed circuit board to enable compact integration with an optical fiber bundle for PAI. A broad photoacoustic bandwidth of ~89% was observed for the photoacoustic response captured from absorbing pencil lead targets. Linear scanning of a single element of a PMUT array was performed on different tissue phantoms embedded with light-absorbing targets to successfully demonstrate B-mode PAI using PMUTs.
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U2 - 10.1109/TUFFC.2019.2956463
DO - 10.1109/TUFFC.2019.2956463
M3 - Article
C2 - 31794394
AN - SCOPUS:85082634976
SN - 0885-3010
VL - 67
SP - 801
EP - 809
JO - IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control
JF - IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control
IS - 4
M1 - 8915732
ER -