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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2018

Generation and Analysis of Ultrasound Images Using Plane Wave and Sparse Arrays Techniques.

Nivaldo T Schiefler, Joaquim M Maia, Fabio K Schneider, Acácio J Zimbico, Amauri A Assef, Eduardo T Costa

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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Nivaldo T SchieflerDepartment of Electronics, Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Santa Catarina (IFSC), Joinville 89220-618, SC, Brazil. nivaldo@ifsc.edu.br.
Joaquim M MaiaGraduate Program in Electrical and Computer Engineering (CPGEI), Federal University of Technology-Paraná (UTFPR), Curitiba 80230-901, PR, Brazil. joaquim@utfpr.edu.br.
Fabio K SchneiderGraduate Program in Electrical and Computer Engineering (CPGEI), Federal University of Technology-Paraná (UTFPR), Curitiba 80230-901, PR, Brazil. fabioks@utfpr.edu.br.
Acácio J ZimbicoGraduate Program in Electrical and Computer Engineering (CPGEI), Federal University of Technology-Paraná (UTFPR), Curitiba 80230-901, PR, Brazil. ajzimbico@gmail.com.
Amauri A AssefGraduate Program in Electrical and Computer Engineering (CPGEI), Federal University of Technology-Paraná (UTFPR), Curitiba 80230-901, PR, Brazil. amauriassef@utfpr.edu.br.
Eduardo T CostaBiomedical Engineering Department of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (DEB/FEEC) and Biomedical Engineering Centre (CEB), State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas 13083-881, SP, Brazil. educosta@ceb.unicamp.br.

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Abstract

Ultrasonic imaging is one of the most important techniques to help medical diagnosis. However, obtaining high quality images requires the acquisition, processing, and storage of a large amount of data. In this work, we evaluated a new ultrasound imaging technique based on plane wave and sparse arrays to increase the scan rate and reduce the amount of data amount to be stored. The performance of the proposed method was tested using simulated echo data (from Field II) and phantom data acquired using a Verasonics system equipped with a L11-4v linear array transducer. The tests were done using 128 elements for transmission and 128, 65, 44, and 23 elements sparsely distributed for reception. The simulated data were compared with images obtained with the Delay and Sum (DAS) method and the experimental data were compared with those acquired from Verasonics. The obtained results using the Full Width at Half Maximum (FWHM) criteria at -6 dB showed that the images generated by the proposed method were similar in terms of resolutions (axial and lateral) and contrast to the simulated and the Verasonics commercial ones, indicating that the sparse reception proposed method is suitable for ultrasound imaging.

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image reconstructionplane wavesparse arraysultrasound

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PMID30373306
PMCPMC6263777

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