A Novel Handheld Ultrasound Medical Imaging Probe: Prototyping, Initial Validation and Business Development

Project Information

LucidWave

Grant agreement ID: 101057902

DOI

10.3030/101057902

Project closed

EC signature date 17 March 2022

Start date 1 July 2022

End date 31 October 2025

Funded under

• The European Innovation Council (EIC)

Total cost

€ 2 427 025,00

EU contribution

€ 2 427 025,00

Coordinated by

KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN
Belgium

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (5)

Flexible micromachined ultrasound transducers (MUTs) for biomedical applications

Author(s): Sanjog Vilas Joshi, Sina Sadeghpour, Nadezda Kuznetsova, Chen Wang, Michael Kraft
Published in: Microsystems & Nanoengineering, Issue 11, 2025, ISSN 2055-7434
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/S41378-024-00783-5

Sensors

Author(s): Sanjog Vilas Joshi; Sina Sadeghpour; Michael Kraft
Published in: Sensors, 2023, ISSN 1424-8220
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/s23104826

Novel Phased Array Piezoelectric Micromachined Ultrasound Transducers (pMUTs) for Medical Imaging

Author(s): Sadeghpour Shamsabadi, Sina; Vilas Joshi, Sanjog; Wang, Chen; Kraft, Michael
Published in: IEEE Open Journal of Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, 2022, ISSN 2694-0884
Publisher: IEEE UFFC-S
DOI: 10.1109/OJUFFC.2022.3207128

Polyimide-On-Silicon 2D Piezoelectric Micromachined Ultrasound Transducer (PMUT) Array

Author(s): Sanjog Vilas Joshi, Sina Sadeghpour, Michael Kraft
Published in: Sensors, Issue 23, 2023, ISSN 1424-8220
Publisher: MDPI AG
DOI: 10.3390/S23104826

Flexible PZT-Based Row-Column Addressed 2-D PMUT Array

Author(s): Sanjog Vilas Joshi, Sina Sadeghpour, Michael Kraft
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, Issue 71, 2024, ISSN 0885-3010
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2024.3465589

Conference proceedings (10)

A 50x20 Row-Column Addressed PMUT Array on Silicon Substrate for Imaging

Author(s): Sanjog Vilas Joshi, Sina Sadeghpour, Michael Kraft
Published in: 2023 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), 2023
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/IUS51837.2023.10307994

Ultrasound Imaging With a 128 Channels Piezoelectric Micromachined Ultrasound Transducer (pMUT): Single-Line-Transmission vs. Plane-Wave

Author(s): Sina Sadeghpour, Rui Amendoeira, Michael Kraft
Published in: 2023 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/IUS51837.2023.10306475

Significant Improvement in SNR of PMUTs by Using Transimpedance Amplifier: A Promising Architecture Towards Canonical Ultrasound Medical Imaging

Author(s): Sina Sadeghpour, Behnam Madadnia, Rui Amendoeira, Javier Collado Ruiz, Michael Kraft
Published in: 2024 IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Joint Symposium (UFFC-JS), 2024
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/UFFC-JS60046.2024.10793922

A Multiple Algorithm Imaging Scheme Towards In-Vitro Reconstruction Performance Benchmarking for pMUTs

Author(s): Rui Amendoeira Esteves, Sina Sadeghpour, Michael Kraft
Published in: 2023 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), 2023
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/IUS51837.2023.10307863

Ultrasound Imaging Using Stitched PMUTs in Third Vibration Mode for Enhanced Resolution

Author(s): Sina Sadeghpour et al.
Published in: 2025 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/IUS62464.2025.11201525

"Bendable Polymer-Based High-Frequency pMUTs on Transparent SU8 and Polyimide Substrates,"" 2023 22nd International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems (Transducers)"

Author(s): S. V. Joshi, S. Sadeghpour and M. Kraft
Published in: 2023 22nd International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems (Transducers)
Publisher: Technical Digest, Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems

Up to 2 µm thick crack-free PZT-PVP sol-gel process optimization, and wafer-level d _33,f -e _31,f characterization for piezo-MEMS

Author(s): Sanjog Vilas Joshi, Sina Sadeghpour, Michael Kraft
Published in: 2025 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/IUS62464.2025.11201250

Genetic Algorithm-based Sparse Matrix Beamforming

Author(s): Rui Amendoeira Esteves, Sina Sadeghpour, Chen Wang, Michael Kraft
Published in: 2024 IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Joint Symposium (UFFC-JS), 2024
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/UFFC-JS60046.2024.10793664

Fabrication of High-Frequency 2D Flexible pMUT Array

Author(s): Sanjog V. Joshi, Sina Sadeghpour, Michael Kraft
Published in: 2023 IEEE 36th International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS), 2024
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/MEMS49605.2023.10052246

Imaging with a Row-Column (RC) Addressed PMUT Array

Author(s): Sanjog Vilas Joshi, Sina Sadeghpour, Rui Amendoeira Esteves, Chen Wang, Michael Kraft
Published in: 2024 IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Joint Symposium (UFFC-JS), 2024
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/UFFC-JS60046.2024.10794146

Other (1)

On the move: medical imaging goes mobile for better healthcare

Author(s): Helen Massy-Beresford
Published in: Horizon Magazine, 2024
Publisher: Directorate of Research and Innovation

Intellectual Property Rights

Patent (1)

ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCER ARRAY DEVICE

Application/Publication number: EP 2021082335
Date: 2021-11-19
Applicant(s): KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN