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ArticleUltrasonic imaging2021

Fourier-based Synthetic-aperture Imaging for Arbitrary Transmissions by Cross-correlation of Transmitted and Received Wave-fields.

Rehman Ali

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Article in Ultrasonic imaging, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
  2. Distributed Aberration Correction Techniques Based on Tomographic Sound Speed Estimates.IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control · 2022
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Rehman AliStanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-2168-7895

Funding

Improving Liver Ultrasound Image Quality in Difficult-to-Image PatientsR01EB027100 · NIBIB · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI DAHL, JEREMY · 2020 to 2023
$2.3M
NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB027100
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Investigations into Fourier beamforming for medical ultrasound imaging have largely been limited to plane-wave and single-element transmissions. The main aim of this work is to generalize Fourier beamforming to enable synthetic aperture imaging with arbitrary transmit sequences. When applied to focused transmit beams, the proposed approach yields a full-waveform-based alternative to virtual-source synthetic aperture, which has implications for both coherence imaging and sound speed estimation. When compared to virtual-source synthetic aperture and retrospective encoding for conventional ultrasound sequences (REFoCUS), the proposed imaging technique shows an 8.6 and 3.8 dB improvement in contrast over virtual source synthetic aperture and REFoCUS, respectively, and a 55% improvement in point target resolution over virtual source synthetic aperture. The proposed image reconstruction technique also demonstrates general imaging improvements in vivo, while avoiding limitations seen in prior techniques.

Indexed as

Image Processing, Computer-AssistedPhantoms, ImagingRetrospective StudiesUltrasonographyangular spectrum methodFourier beamformingfull waveformshot-profile migrationsynthetic aperture

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PMID34238073
PMCPMC10895517

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