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This paper presents a comprehensive guide to co-design lithium niobate (LiNbO3) lateral overtone bulk acoustic resonators (LOBARs) and voltage-controlled oscillators (VCOs) using discrete components on a printed circuit board (PCB). The analysis focuses on understanding the oscillator level tradeoffs between the number of locked tones, frequency stability, tuning range, power consumption, and phase noise. Moreover, the paper focuses on understanding the relationship between the above specifications and the different LOBAR parameters such as electromechanical coupling (kt2), quality factor (Q), transducer design and the resonator size. As a result of this study, the first voltage-controlled MEMS oscillator (VCMO) based on LiNbO3 LOBAR is demonstrated. Our LOBAR excites over 30 resonant modes in the range of 100 to 800 MHz with a frequency spacing of 20 MHz. The VCMO consists of a LOBAR in a closed loop with 2 amplification stages and a varactor-embedded tunable LC tank. By adjusting the bias voltage applied to the varactor, the tank can be tuned to change the closed-loop gain and phase responses of the oscillator so that the Barkhausen conditions are satisfied for a particular resonant mode. The tank is designed to allow the proposed VCMO to lock to any of the ten overtones ranging from 300 to 500 MHz. These ten tones are characterized by average Qs of 2100, kt2 of 1.5%, figure-of-merit (FOM = Q · kt2) of 31.5 enabling low phase noise, and low power oscillators crucial for internet-of-things (IoT). Owing to the high Qs of the LiNbO3 LOBAR, the measured VCMO shows a close-in phase noise of -100 dBc/Hz at 1 kHz offset from a 300 MHz carrier and a noise floor of -153 dBc/Hz while consuming 9 mW. With further optimization, this VCMO can lead to direct radio frequency (RF) synthesis for ultra-low-power transceivers in multi-mode IoT nodes.Novel pulsed-Doppler methods for perfusion imaging are validated using dialysis cartridges as perfusion phantoms. Techniques that were demonstrated qualitatively at 24 MHz, in vivo [18], are here examined quantitatively at 5 and 12.5 MHz using phantoms with blood-mimicking fluid flow within cellulose microfibers. One goal is to explore a variety of flow states to optimize measurement sensitivity and flow accuracy. The results show that 2-3 s echo acquisitions at roughly 10 frames/s yields the highest sensitivity to flows 1-4 mL/min. A second goal is to examine methods for setting the parameters of higher-order singular value decomposition (HOSVD) clutter filters. For stationary or moving clutter, the velocity of bloodmimicking fluid in the microfibers is consistently estimated within measurement uncertainty (mean coeff of variation = 0.26). Power Doppler signals were equivalent for stationary and moving clutter after clutter filtering, increasing approximately 3 dB per mL/min of blood-mimicking fluid flow for 0≤ q≤ 4 mL/min. Comparisons between phantom and preclinical images show that peripheral perfusion imaging can be reliably achieved without contrast enhancement.This paper aims to develop a semi-noncontact stress-sensing system employing a laser-generated ultrasound wave assisted by candle soot nanoparticle (CSNP) composite. While the acoustoelastic effect is commonly targeted to measure stress level, efforts to combine it with the laser-generated ultrasound wave signal have been lacking due to weak signal intensity. In this study, the CSNP-based transducer is designed to potentiate the photoacoustic energy conversion. To demonstrate the wave propagation with the designed parameters, a numerical simulation was first conducted. Experiment results showed that a laser intensity of 6.5 mJ/cm2 was enough to generate the SSL wave from the CSNP composite transducer. The normal beam projection is the most effective wave-generation method, exhibiting the highest signal magnitude compared with inclined projection cases. Finally, the laser-assisted stress-sensing system was assessed by increasing the internal pressure of an air tank. The sensitivity of the developed sensor system was estimated to be 0.296 ns/MPa, showing a correlation of 0.983 with the theoretical prediction. The proposed sensing system can be used to monitor the structural integrity of nuclear power plants.Breast arterial calcifications (BACs) are part of several benign findings present on some mammograms. Previous studies have indicated that BAC may provide evidence of general atherosclerotic vascular disease, and potentially be a useful marker of cardiovascular disease (CVD). Currently, there is no technique in use for the automatic detection of BAC in mammograms. Since a majority of women over the age of 40 already undergo breast cancer screening with mammography, detecting BAC may offer a method to screen women for CVD in a way that is effective, efficient, and broad reaching, at no additional cost or radiation. In this paper, we present a deep learning approach for detecting BACs in mammograms. Inspired by the promising results achieved using the U-Net model in many biomedical segmentation problems and the DenseNet in semantic segmentation, we extend the U-Net model with dense connectivity to automatically detect BACs in mammograms. The presented model helps to facilitate the reuse of computation and improve the flow of gradients, leading to better accuracy and easier training of the model. We evaluate the performance using a set of full-field digital mammograms collected and prepared for this task from a publicly available dataset. Experimental results demonstrate that the presented model outperforms human experts as well as the other related deep learning models. This confirms the effectiveness of our model in the BACs detection task, which is a promising step in providing a cost-effective risk assessment tool for CVD.The impulse response of optoacoustic (photoacoustic) tomographic imaging system depends on several system components, the characteristics of which can influence the quality of reconstructed images. The effect of these system components on reconstruction quality have not been considered in detail so far. Here we combine sparse measurements of the total impulse response (TIR) with a geometric acoustic model to obtain a full characterization of the TIR of a handheld optoacoustic tomography system with concave limited-view acquisition geometry. read more We then use this synthetic TIR to reconstruct data from phantoms and healthy human volunteers, demonstrating improvements in image resolution and fidelity. The higher accuracy of optoacoustic tomographic reconstruction with TIR correction further improves the diagnostic capability of handheld optoacoustic tomographic systems.