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ArticleIEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering2023

Fast 3D Super-Resolution Ultrasound With Adaptive Weight-Based Beamforming.

Jipeng Yan, Bingxue Wang, Kai Riemer, Joseph Hansen-Shearer, Marcelo Lerendegui, Matthieu Toulemonde, Christopher J Rowlands, Peter D Weinberg, Meng-Xing Tang

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Article in IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering, 2023. 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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4 citing papers in PubMed, 23 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Advancements in Three-Dimensional Super-Resolution Ultrasound Imaging: A Narrative Review.Journal of ultrasound in medicine : official journal of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

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9 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Jipeng Yan
Bingxue Wang
Kai Riemer
Joseph Hansen-Shearer
Marcelo Lerendegui
Matthieu Toulemonde
Christopher J Rowlands
Peter D Weinberg
Meng-Xing Tang
Imperial College London · GB

Funding

Medical Research Council MC-PC-18050
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveSuper-resolution ultrasound (SRUS) imaging through localising and tracking sparse microbubbles has been shown to reveal microvascular structure and flow beyond the wave diffraction limit. Most SRUS studies use standard delay and sum (DAS) beamforming, where high side lobes and broad main lobes make isolation and localisation of densely distributed bubbles challenging, particularly in 3D due to the typically small aperture of matrix array probes.

methodThis study aimed to improve 3D SRUS by implementing a new fast 3D coherence beamformer based on channel signal variance. Two additional fast coherence beamformers, that have been implemented in 2D were implemented in 3D for the first time as comparison: a nonlinear beamformer with p-th root compression and a coherence factor beamformer. The 3D coherence beamformers, together with DAS, were compared in computer simulation, on a microflow phantom and in vivo.

resultsSimulation results demonstrated that all three adaptive weight-based beamformers can narrow the main lobe, suppress the side lobes, while maintaining the weaker scatter signals. Improved 3D SRUS images of microflow phantom and a rabbit kidney within a 3-second acquisition were obtained using the adaptive weight-based beamformers, when compared with DAS.

conclusionThe adaptive weight-based 3D beamformers can improve the SRUS and the proposed variance-based beamformer performs best in simulations and experiments. SIGNIFICANCE: Fast 3D SRUS would significantly enhance the potential utility of this emerging imaging modality in a broad range of biomedical applications.

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Image Processing, Computer-AssistedSignal Processing, Computer-AssistedAlgorithmsAnimalsComputer SimulationImaging, Three-DimensionalPhantoms, ImagingRabbitsUltrasonography

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PMID37015124
PMCPMC7614997
OpenAlexW4362014561

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