Ten-minute Continuous Acquisitions with the Verasonics Vantage Research Scanner

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Abstract

Functional imaging and super-resolution imaging are promising research areas of medical ultrasound. For the purpose of tracking physiological changes and micro-bubbles, they require continuous data acquisition for minutes. One flexible and mobile research scanner that can be used for that purpose is the Verasonics Vantage, which however has a hardware limitation of approximately 132,000 emissions per data acquisition using the stock software library. Using an emission rate of 5 kHz gives an acquisition time of only 26 seconds, which is insufficient. This paper presents a technique for overcoming this limitation, achieving long acquisitions where the scan duration is limited by the computer RAM only. The technique has been already routinely used for 10-minute in-vivo scans of exposed rat kidneys, resulting in micro-bubble tracking maps for super-resolution imaging.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of 2023 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium
Number of pages3
PublisherIEEE
Publication date2023
ISBN (Print)979-8-3503-4645-9
Publication statusPublished - 2023
Event2023 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium - Palais des congrès de Montréal, Montreal, Canada
Duration: 3 Sept 20238 Sept 2023
Conference number: 61

Conference

Conference2023 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium
Number61
LocationPalais des congrès de Montréal
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityMontreal
Period03/09/202308/09/2023

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