A Method for Synthetic Aperture Compounding

Jens Munk Hansen; Jørgen Arendt Jensen

doi:10.1109/ULTSYM.2010.0442

A Method for Synthetic Aperture Compounding

Jens Munk Hansen, Jørgen Arendt Jensen

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An approach to perform ultrasound spatial compounding using synthetic aperture data is proposed. The approach allows compounding to be performed for any number of directions without reducing the frame rate or temporal resolution. It is demonstrated how the contrast is improved by compounding and the effect is quantized by speckle statistics and by computing contrast-to-noise ratios (CNR) from the resulting images. The method is validated using Field II simulations for a 7 MHz, =2-pitch transducer with 192 elements with 64 elements active for each scan line. Circular regions (cysts) with a diameter of 5 mm and scattering levels ranging from -3 to -12 dB relative to the background are imaged at 2 depths. Compound images composed of 1-5 images with an angular separation of 2 degrees are constructed and for the cysts at -3, -6, -9, and -12 dB, a CNR of -0.43, -1.11, -1.44, and -1.91 dB are obtained when using 5 images. Using the same RF data, a synthetic aperture image without compounding reveals a CNR of -0.36, -0.93, -1.23, and -1.61 dB for the four cysts, respectively.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium
Publisher	IEEE
Publication date	2010
Pages	1743-1746
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4577-0380-5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ULTSYM.2010.0442
Publication status	Published - 2010
Event	2010 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium - San Diego, California, United States Duration: 11 Oct 2010 → 14 Oct 2010 http://ewh.ieee.org/conf/ius_2010/

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Conference	2010 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium
Country/Territory	United States
City	San Diego, California
Period	11/10/2010 → 14/10/2010
Internet address	http://ewh.ieee.org/conf/ius_2010/

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