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A New Design of the Interrogating Waves for Medical Ultrasonic Imaging Based on Wavelets and Subband Filter Banks: A Simulation Study  

Yang Yoon Seok (Bio-MEMS Team, Basic Research Laboratory, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI))
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Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research / v.25, no.6, 2004 , pp. 431-438 More about this Journal
Abstract
Medical ultrasonic imaging is a useful imaging facility known to be most safe and easy. It enables physicians to observe the inside structures of the bodies, blood flow, and motions of internal organs. Some physical properties of biologic tissues can also be estimated from backscattered sounds. However, the ultrasonic pulses interrogating the living organisms leave their footprints in the returning signals during imaging. Some significant details are buried in the footprints and their overlaps from adjacent particles. These distortions also decrease the quality of the images. Many research efforts have been made to enhance the image quality and to recover the acoustic information in various ways. In this study, a new interrogation method based on the wavelet and subband filter bank is proposed. It adopts the subband wavelet filters satisfying the perfect-reconstruction (PR) conditions as the interrogating pulses to restore the details useful in tissue characterization and to enhance the image quality. The proposed method was applied to two types of simulations of ultrasonic imaging. The results showed its ability to restore the detailsin the simulated interrogation of biologic tissues, and verified the improved image quality in the simulated imaging of general ultrasonic phantom compared with the conventional method.
Keywords
Medical ultrasonic; imaging; Wavelets; Subband filter bank; Perfect reconstruction (PR);
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