Second harmonic imaging using synthetic aperture sequential beamforming
Publication: Research - peer-review › Article in proceedings – Annual report year: 2011
The paper investigates Second Harmonic Imaging
(SHI) using Synthetic Aperture Sequential Beamforming
(SASB). The investigation is made by an experimental Synthetic
Aperture Real-time Ultrasound System (SARUS). A linear array
transducer is used to scan 4 wires at the image depths of f22.5,
47.5, 72.5, 97.5g mm, respectively. Three different experiments
are made using three different transmit foci at 10 mm, 25 mm
and 50 mm. A 2-cycle sine wave with a center frequency of
5 MHz is used as the excitation. The SHI is achieved by using
Pulse Inversion (PI) technique. The data received with and
without PI from SARUS are beamformed using Dynamic Receive
Focusing (DRF) and SASB by a Beamformation Toolbox. The
Full Widths at Half Maximum (FWHM) in both the lateral
and axial directions for these four wire targets using different
imaging algorithms (DRF, DRF+SHI, SASB and SASB+SHI)
are calculated and shown in the paper. The Full Width at One
Tenth Maximum (FWOTM) is also investigated. By combining
SASB and SHI, the lateral resolution is improved by 66%, 35%
and 46% for FWHM, and 52%, 20% and 29% for FWOTM,
compared to DRF, DRF+SHI and SASB, respectively. The axial
resolution is improved 24% on average by SHI.
| Original language | English |
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| Title | Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Publisher | IEEE |
| Publication date | 2011 |
| Pages | 2261-2264 |
| ISBN (print) | 978-1-4577-1251-7 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published |
Conference
| Conference | 2011 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium |
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| Country | United States |
| City | Orlando, FL |
| Period | 18-10-11 → 21-10-11 |
| Internet address | http://ewh.ieee.org/conf/ius_2011/ |
| Citations | Web of Science® Times Cited: 0 |
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