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Conference Paper: A modified synthetic aperture imaging approach with axial motion compensation
Title | A modified synthetic aperture imaging approach with axial motion compensation |
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Keywords | Cyst imaging experiment Interleaved firing Motion compensation Synthetic aperture imaging Tissue-cyst contrast |
Issue Date | 2008 |
Citation | Proceedings - Ieee Ultrasonics Symposium, 2008, p. 1254-1257 How to Cite? |
Abstract | Synthetic aperture (SA) imaging provides an alternate mean of obtaining ultrasound images. However, since this approach is based on coherent summation of low-resolution images (LRIs) acquired from different point sources along an array, its image quality may be degraded if motion is present in between firings. In this work, we report a modified SA imaging scheme that can compensate for the effects of axial motion on the image quality. The scheme first acquires data by making use of an interleaved firing sequence where a center-point firing is carried out in between each point-source firing. It then estimates the mean axial shift between two LRIs by performing a crosscorrelation analysis on the raw channel data of successive centerpoint firings. The LRI of each point-source firing is then axially counter-shifted by the estimated shift value to compensate for possible aberration during SA image formation. To test out our proposed scheme, we conducted a tissue-cyst phantom imaging experiment, where raw channel data was acquired using our interleaved firing scheme for 97 virtual point sources laterally spaced apart at 0.3mm and axially located at 10mm behind the probe. This data acquisition procedure was repeated for a range of inter-firing probe displacements (15-90 μm) introduced via a motion stage. From the acquired data, motion-compensated SA images were formed using our modified image formation method, and their contrast was compared to those formed without motion compensation. Results show that our proposed scheme reduced the amount of blurring seen in SA images when uniform axial motion is present during data acquisition. Without motion compensation, the contrast level for the phantom cysts can drop by 15-20dB (relative to the SA image taken without motion) for the range of inter-firing displacements examined. When our motion compensation strategy was applied, this contrast drop was less than 5dB. © 2008 IEEE. |
Description | IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/62032 |
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dc.contributor.author | Yiu, BYS | en_HK |
dc.contributor.author | Tsang, IKH | en_HK |
dc.contributor.author | Yu, ACH | en_HK |
dc.date.accessioned | 2010-07-13T03:52:30Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2010-07-13T03:52:30Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2008 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.citation | Proceedings - Ieee Ultrasonics Symposium, 2008, p. 1254-1257 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.issn | 1051-0117 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/62032 | - |
dc.description | IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium | en_HK |
dc.description.abstract | Synthetic aperture (SA) imaging provides an alternate mean of obtaining ultrasound images. However, since this approach is based on coherent summation of low-resolution images (LRIs) acquired from different point sources along an array, its image quality may be degraded if motion is present in between firings. In this work, we report a modified SA imaging scheme that can compensate for the effects of axial motion on the image quality. The scheme first acquires data by making use of an interleaved firing sequence where a center-point firing is carried out in between each point-source firing. It then estimates the mean axial shift between two LRIs by performing a crosscorrelation analysis on the raw channel data of successive centerpoint firings. The LRI of each point-source firing is then axially counter-shifted by the estimated shift value to compensate for possible aberration during SA image formation. To test out our proposed scheme, we conducted a tissue-cyst phantom imaging experiment, where raw channel data was acquired using our interleaved firing scheme for 97 virtual point sources laterally spaced apart at 0.3mm and axially located at 10mm behind the probe. This data acquisition procedure was repeated for a range of inter-firing probe displacements (15-90 μm) introduced via a motion stage. From the acquired data, motion-compensated SA images were formed using our modified image formation method, and their contrast was compared to those formed without motion compensation. Results show that our proposed scheme reduced the amount of blurring seen in SA images when uniform axial motion is present during data acquisition. Without motion compensation, the contrast level for the phantom cysts can drop by 15-20dB (relative to the SA image taken without motion) for the range of inter-firing displacements examined. When our motion compensation strategy was applied, this contrast drop was less than 5dB. © 2008 IEEE. | en_HK |
dc.language | eng | en_HK |
dc.relation.ispartof | Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium | en_HK |
dc.subject | Cyst imaging experiment | en_HK |
dc.subject | Interleaved firing | en_HK |
dc.subject | Motion compensation | en_HK |
dc.subject | Synthetic aperture imaging | en_HK |
dc.subject | Tissue-cyst contrast | en_HK |
dc.title | A modified synthetic aperture imaging approach with axial motion compensation | en_HK |
dc.type | Conference_Paper | en_HK |
dc.identifier.email | Yu, ACH:alfred.yu@hku.hk | en_HK |
dc.identifier.authority | Yu, ACH=rp00657 | en_HK |
dc.description.nature | link_to_subscribed_fulltext | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1109/ULTSYM.2008.0303 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-67649331454 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 153469 | en_HK |
dc.relation.references | http://www.scopus.com/mlt/select.url?eid=2-s2.0-67649331454&selection=ref&src=s&origin=recordpage | en_HK |
dc.identifier.spage | 1254 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.epage | 1257 | en_HK |
dc.publisher.place | United States | en_HK |
dc.identifier.scopusauthorid | Yiu, BYS=26657783600 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.scopusauthorid | Tsang, IKH=26657657600 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.scopusauthorid | Yu, ACH=8699317700 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.issnl | 1051-0117 | - |