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Efficient Implementation of Synthetic Aperture Imaging with Virtual Source Element in B-mode Ultrasound System Based on Sparse Array  

김강식 (서강대학교 전자공학과)
송태경 (서강대학교 전자공학과)
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Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research / v.23, no.6, 2002 , pp. 419-430 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this paper. we propose an efficient method for implementing hi-directional pixel-based focusing(BiPBF) based on a sparse array imaging technique. The proposed method can improve spatial resolution and frame rate of ultrasound imaging with reduced hardware complexity by synthesizing transmit apertures with a small number of sparsely distributed subapertures. As the distance between adjacent subapertures increases, however. the image resolution tends to decrease due to the elevation of grating lobes. Such grating lobes can be eliminated in conventional synthetic aperture imaging techniques. On the contrary, grating lobes arisen from employing sparse synthetic transmit apertures can not be eliminated, which has been shown analytically in this paper. We also propose the condition and method for suppressing the grating lobes below -40dB, which is generally required in practical imaging. by placing the transmit focal depth at a near depth and properly selecting the subaperture distance in Proportion to receive aperture size. The results of both the Phantom and in vivo experiments show that the proposed method implements two-wav dynamic focusing using a smaller number of subapertures, resulting in reduced system complexity and increased frame rate.
Keywords
Medical ultrasound imaging; Synthetic aperture; Fast scanning; Spatial resolution; High frame rate;
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