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ArticleIEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control2021

Subaperture Processing-Based Adaptive Beamforming for Photoacoustic Imaging.

Rashid Al Mukaddim, Rifat Ahmed, Tomy Varghese

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Article in IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
1.1field-weighted citation impact, top 26% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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6 citing papers in PubMed, 17 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. Improving Minimum Variance Beamforming with Sub-Aperture Processing for Photoacoustic Imaging.Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference · 2021
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Rashid Al Mukaddim
Rifat Ahmed
Tomy Varghese
University of Wisconsin–Madison · USDuke University · US

Funding

UW COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER SUPPORTP30CA014520 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI Christian Capitini · 1985 to 2026
$142.6M
Early Detection of Vascular Dysfunction Using Biomarkers from Lagrangian Carotid Strain ImagingR01HL147866 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI VARGHESE, TOMY · 2020 to 2023
$2.9M
Real-time Ultrasonic Monitoring of Tumor AblationR01CA112192 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI VARGHESE, TOMY · 2007 to 2017
$2.6M
Ultrasonic and Photoacoustic Imaging System for Cancer & Cardiovascular ResearchS10OD018505 · OD · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI VARGHESE, TOMY · 2015 to 2015
$908k
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA014520NCI NIH HHS R01 CA112192NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL147866NIH HHS S10 OD018505
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Delay-and-sum (DAS) beamformers, when applied to photoacoustic (PA) image reconstruction, produce strong sidelobes due to the absence of transmit focusing. Consequently, DAS PA images are often severely degraded by strong off-axis clutter. For preclinical in vivo cardiac PA imaging, the presence of these noise artifacts hampers the detectability and interpretation of PA signals from the myocardial wall, crucial for studying blood-dominated cardiac pathological information and to complement functional information derived from ultrasound imaging. In this article, we present PA subaperture processing (PSAP), an adaptive beamforming method, to mitigate these image degrading effects. In PSAP, a pair of DAS reconstructed images is formed by splitting the received channel data into two complementary nonoverlapping subapertures. Then, a weighting matrix is derived by analyzing the correlation between subaperture beamformed images and multiplied with the full-aperture DAS PA image to reduce sidelobes and incoherent clutter. We validated PSAP using numerical simulation studies using point target, diffuse inclusion and microvasculature imaging, and in vivo feasibility studies on five healthy murine models. Qualitative and quantitative analysis demonstrate improvements in PAI image quality with PSAP compared to DAS and coherence factor weighted DAS (DAS

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Photoacoustic TechniquesAlgorithmsAnimalsImage Processing, Computer-AssistedMicePhantoms, ImagingSignal-To-Noise RatioUltrasonography

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PMID33606629
PMCPMC8330397
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