ArticleJournal of medical ultrasonics (2001)2020
A novel adaptive apodization to improve the resolution of phased subarray imaging in medical ultrasound.
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- On the publication of the special feature on recent progress in basic research useful for the interpretation of ultrasound diagnostic images.Journal of medical ultrasonics (2001) · 2021Article
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Abstract
purposePhased subarray imaging (PSA) was previously proposed to extend the receive aperture length. Using overlapped subarrays as transmitters in PSA leads to decrement of sidelobe levels of the overall beam compared to full phased array imaging (PHA). This paper proposes an adaptive compounding of subarray images in PSA to improve both the resolution and contrast compared with PHA.
methodAdaptive apodization (ADAP) is defined proportional to the beamformed responses of subarrays such that the overall energy after compounding is minimized.
resultsThe simulation and experimental results validate the performance of applying ADAP in PSA. The full width at half maximum (FWHM) at a depth of 30 mm in the proposed PSA is about 0.2 mm, compared to a FWHM of 0.6 mm with PHA imaging. Measuring the contrast ratio index shows that the ADAP method also improves the contrast in PSA imaging at least 25% compared to PHA imaging.
conclusionApplying the proposed ADAP, besides conventional compounding in PSA imaging, leads to improvement of both the resolution and contrast compared to PHA imaging.
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