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Multiple Transmit Focusing Method With Modified Orthogonal Golay Codes for Ultrasound Imaging  

김배형 (서강대학교 전자공학과)
송태경 (서강대학교 전자공학과)
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Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research / v.24, no.3, 2003 , pp. 217-231 More about this Journal
Abstract
Coded excitation with complementary Golay sequences is an effective means to increase the SNR and penetration of ultrasound imaging. in which the two complementary binary codes are transmitted successively along each scan-line, reducing the imaging frame rate by half. This method suffers from low frame rate particularly when multiple transmit focusing is employed, since the frame rate will be further reduced in proportion to the number of focal zones. In this paper. a new ultrasound imaging technique based on simultaneous multiple transmit focusing using modified orthogonal Golay codes is proposed to improve lateral resolution with no accompanying decrease in the imaging frame rate, in which a pair of orthogonal Golay codes focused at two different focal depths are transmitted simultaneously. On receive, these modified orthogonal Golay codes are separately compressed into two short pulses and individually focused. These two focused beams are combined to form a frame of image with improved lateral resolution. The Golay codes were modified to improve the transmit power efficiency (TPE) for practical imaging. Computer simulations and experimental results show that the proposed method improves significantly the lateral resolution and penetration of ultrasound imaging compared with the conventional method.
Keywords
Medical ultrasound imaging; Modified orthogonal Golay codes; Multiple transmit focusing; Pulse compression; Image resolution; SNR; Penetration; TPE; Frame rate;
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