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가중 쳐프 신호를 사용한 초음파 고조파 영상 기법  

김동열 (서강대학교 전자공학과)
이종철 (서강대학교 전자공학과)
권성재 (대진대학교 통신공학과)
송태경 (서강대학교 전자공학과)
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Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research / v.23, no.1, 2002 , pp. 61-72 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this parer, a new harmonic imaging technique is Proposed and evaluated experimentally. In the Proposed method. a weighted chirp signal with a hanning window is transmitted. The RF samples obtained on each array element are individually compressed by correlating with the reference signal defined as the 2nd harmonic component($2f_0$) of a transmitted chirp signal generated in a square-law system. The correlator output will then consist of the compressed version of the $2f_0$ component generated in tissue and the crosscorrelation sequence of the fundamental($f_0$) and 2f$_{0}$components. The Proposed method uses the compressed $2f_0$ component to form an image. for which the crosscorrelation term should be suppressed below at least -50dB. The Proposed method has two process, 2f$_{0}$-correlation and $2f_0$-correlation(PI) . $2f_0$-correlation can successfully eliminate the $f_0$ component with a single transmit-receive events and therefore is more efficient than the conventional Pulse inversion method in terms of the frame rate. 2i)-correlation(Pl) Performs pulse compression after applying pulse inversion method for the 2nd harmonic image with high resolution and SNR. Another advantage of the proposed method is that the SNR of 2nd harmonic imaging can be improved without limitation by increasing the duration of the chirp signal. The proposed method was verified through both the computer simulations and actual experiments .ts .
Keywords
Medical ultrasound imaging; Harmonic imaging; Weighted chirp signal; Pulse compression; Pulse inversion; Frame rate .;
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