Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research (대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지)

The Korean Society of Medical and Biological Engineering (대한의용생체공학회)
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An Experimental Study of the Synthetic Sinc Wave in Ultrasonic Imaging

초음파 의료 영상에서 합성 Sinc 음장 집속방법의 실험적 고찰

  • Published : 2002.06.01
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Abstract

Synthetic zinc wave employs Pulsed plane wave as transmit beam with linear time delay curve. The received echoes in different transmit directions at different transmit times are superposed at imaging Points with Proper time delay compensation using synthetic focusing scheme. This scheme. which uses full aperture in transmit, obtains a high SNR image, and also features high lateral resolution by using two way dynamic focusing at all imaging depths. In this Paper, we consider the Problems in realization of synthetic zinc wave. Also. we have applied the scheme to obtain phantom and in-vivo images using a linear array of 5 MHz. In phantom test. experimental images show high resolution over a more extended imaging depth than conventional fixed Point transmit and receive dynamic focusing schemes In-vivo images show that the resolution could not overcome conventional focusing systems because of motion blurring and(or) aberration of tissue. but the frame rate tan be increased by a factor of more than 5 compared to conventional focusing schemes. with competitive resolution at all imaging depths .

합성 싱크 음장은 선형지연을 가지는 펄스 평면파를 송신한다. 송신집속은 각각 다른 시간에 송신된 진행방향이 다른 평면파들에 대한 수신신호를 모두 저장하고 있다가 합성집속 방법을 이용한다 이러한 송신 집속 방법은 송신시 전체의 소자를 동시에 사용함으로 높은 SNR을 얻을수 있고. 양방향 동적집속이 가능하다. 본 논문에서는 합성싱크음장 집속방법을 구현하기위한 문제점을 고찰하고, 5MHz의 선형변환기를 이용한 초음파 영상진단기에서 펜텀과 인체의 영상에 대하여 합성싱크음장 집속방법을 실험으로 검증하였다 펜텀 영상의 경우 기존의 방법에 비하여 더 좋은 해상도로 더 깊이 영상화 할 수 있었다. 인체 영상의 경우 인체의 움직임과 위상수차(phase aberration) 등으로 인한 효과로 해상도는 떨어지지만. 기존의 집속방법에 대하여 5배 이상의 frame 율의 속도로 영상을 얻어도 기존의 방법과 비슷한 해상도를 얻을 수 있었다

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