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ArticleIEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control2020

3-D Super-Resolution Ultrasound Imaging With a 2-D Sparse Array.

Sevan Harput, Kirsten Christensen-Jeffries, Alessandro Ramalli, Jemma Brown, Jiaqi Zhu, Ge Zhang, Chee Hau Leow, Matthieu Toulemonde, Enrico Boni, Piero Tortoli and 3 more

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Article in IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers.

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30citing papers in PubMed
6.3field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

30 citing papers in PubMed, 119 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.

Sevan Harput
Kirsten Christensen-Jeffries
Alessandro Ramalli
Jemma Brown
Jiaqi Zhu
Ge Zhang
Chee Hau Leow
Matthieu Toulemonde
Enrico Boni
Piero Tortoli
Robert J Eckersley
Chris Dunsby
Meng-Xing Tang
Imperial College London · GBKing's College London · GBUniversity of Florence · ITLondon South Bank University · GB

Funding

Medical Research Council MR/S023542/1Wellcome Trust 203148
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

High-frame-rate 3-D ultrasound imaging technology combined with super-resolution processing method can visualize 3-D microvascular structures by overcoming the diffraction-limited resolution in every spatial direction. However, 3-D super-resolution ultrasound imaging using a full 2-D array requires a system with a large number of independent channels, the design of which might be impractical due to the high cost, complexity, and volume of data produced. In this study, a 2-D sparse array was designed and fabricated with 512 elements chosen from a density-tapered 2-D spiral layout. High-frame-rate volumetric imaging was performed using two synchronized ULA-OP 256 research scanners. Volumetric images were constructed by coherently compounding nine-angle plane waves acquired at a pulse repetition frequency of 4500 Hz. Localization-based 3-D super-resolution images of two touching subwavelength tubes were generated from 6000 volumes acquired in 12 s. Finally, this work demonstrates the feasibility of 3-D super-resolution imaging and super-resolved velocity mapping using a customized 2-D sparse array transducer.

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Imaging, Three-DimensionalMicrobubblesPhantoms, ImagingSignal Processing, Computer-AssistedUltrasonography

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PMID31562080
PMCPMC7614008
OpenAlexW2975242705

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