Imaging Performance for Two Row-Column Arrays
| Autor: | Mathias Engholm, Svetoslav Ivanov Nikolov, Erik Vilain Thomsen, Matthias Bo Stuart, Jørgen Arendt Jensen, Hamed Bouzari |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Materials science
Acoustics and Ultrasonics business.industry Capacitive sensing 01 natural sciences 3-D imaging Imaging phantom Volumetric ultrasound imaging Speckle pattern Optics Capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducers Transducer Apodization Beamforming Row-column arrays 0103 physical sciences Ultrasonic sensor Electrical and Electronic Engineering Center frequency business 010301 acoustics Instrumentation |
| Zdroj: | Bouzari, H, Engholm, M, Nikolov, S I, Stuart, M B, Thomsen, E V & Jensen, J A 2019, ' Imaging Performance for Two Row–Column Arrays ', IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control, vol. 66, no. 7, pp. 1209-1221 . https://doi.org/10.1109/TUFFC.2019.2914348 |
| ISSN: | 1525-8955 |
| Popis: | This study evaluates the volumetric imaging performance of two prototyped 62 + 62 row–column-addressed (RCA) 2-D array transducer probes using three synthetic aperture imaging (SAI) emission sequences and two different beamformers. The probes are fabricated using capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducer (CMUT) and piezoelectric transducer (PZT) technology. Both have integrated apodization to reduce ghost echoes and are designed with similar acoustical features, i.e., 3-MHz center frequency, $\lambda $ /2 pitch, and $24.8\times 24.8\,\,\text {mm}^{2}$ active footprint. Raw RF data are obtained using an experimental research ultrasound scanner, SARUS. The SAI sequences are designed for imaging down to 14 cm at a volume rate of 88 Hz. Two beamforming methods, spatial matched filtering and row–column adapted delay-and-sum, are used for beamforming the RF data. The imaging quality is investigated through simulations and phantom measurements. Both probes on average have similar lateral full-width at half-maximum (FWHM) values, but the PZT probe has 20% smaller cystic resolution values and 70% larger contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR) compared to the capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducer (CMUT) probe. The CMUT probe can penetrate down to 15 cm, and the PZT probe down to 30 cm. The CMUT probe has 17% smaller axial FWHM values. The matched filter focusing shows an improved B-mode image for measurements on a cyst phantom with an improved speckle pattern and better visualization of deeper lying cysts. The results of this study demonstrate the potentials of RCA 2-D arrays against fully addressed 2-D arrays, which are low channel count (e.g., 124 instead of 3844), low acoustic intensity mechanical index (MI ≤ 0.88 and spatial-peak-temporal-average intensity $I_{\text {spta}}\leq 5.5~\text {mW/cm}^{2}$ ), and high penetration depth (down to 30 cm), which makes 3-D imaging at high volume rates possible with equipment in the price range of conventional 2-D imaging. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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