Large-Array Deep Abdominal Imaging in Fundamental and Harmonic Mode
Deep abdominal images suffer from poor diffraction-limited lateral resolution. Extending the aperture size can improve resolution. However, phase distortion and clutter can limit the benefits of larger arrays. Previous studies have explored these effects using numerical simulations, multiple transdu...
| Publié dans: | IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control. - 1986. - 70(2023), 5 vom: 09. Mai, Seite 406-421 |
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| Autres auteurs: | , , |
| Format: | Article en ligne |
| Langue: | English |
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2023
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| Accès à la collection: | IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control |
| Sujets: | Journal Article Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural |
| Résumé: | Deep abdominal images suffer from poor diffraction-limited lateral resolution. Extending the aperture size can improve resolution. However, phase distortion and clutter can limit the benefits of larger arrays. Previous studies have explored these effects using numerical simulations, multiple transducers, and mechanically swept arrays. In this work, we used an 8.8-cm linear array transducer to investigate the effects of aperture size when imaging through the abdominal wall. We acquired channel data in fundamental and harmonic modes using five aperture sizes. To avoid motion and increase the parameter sampling, we decoded the full-synthetic aperture data and retrospectively synthesized nine apertures (2.9-8.8 cm). We imaged a wire target and a phantom through ex vivo porcine abdominal samples and scanned the livers of 13 healthy subjects. We applied bulk sound speed correction to the wire target data. Although point resolution improved from 2.12 to 0.74 mm at 10.5 cm depth, contrast resolution often degraded with aperture size. In subjects, larger apertures resulted in an average maximum contrast degradation of 5.5 dB at 9-11 cm depth. However, larger apertures often led to visual detection of vascular targets unseen with conventional apertures. An average 3.7-dB contrast improvement over fundamental mode in subjects showed that the known benefits of tissue-harmonic imaging extend to larger arrays |
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| Description: | Date Completed 17.05.2023 Date Revised 14.10.2024 published: Print-Electronic Citation Status MEDLINE |
| ISSN: | 1525-8955 |
| DOI: | 10.1109/TUFFC.2023.3255800 |