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A compact 2D matrix array comprised of hexagonal transducer elements for fast volumetric ultrasound imaging. 一种紧凑的二维矩阵阵列，由六边形换能器元件组成，用于快速体积超声成像。

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IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control Pub Date : 2025-07-21 DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2025.3591315

Hugues Favre, Merijn Berendsen, Rick Waasdorp, David Maresca

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Adaptive Singular Value Decomposition-based Hyperecho Suppression for Diagnostic Power Doppler Ultrasound Image Processing. 基于自适应奇异值分解的超回波抑制功率多普勒超声诊断图像处理。

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IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control Pub Date : 2025-07-17 DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2025.3590025

Yongchao Wang, Yang Liu, Xingzhao Liu, Ye Zhang, Weicheng Li, Yaokun He, Jianbo Tang

{"title":"Adaptive Singular Value Decomposition-based Hyperecho Suppression for Diagnostic Power Doppler Ultrasound Image Processing.","authors":"Yongchao Wang, Yang Liu, Xingzhao Liu, Ye Zhang, Weicheng Li, Yaokun He, Jianbo Tang","doi":"10.1109/TUFFC.2025.3590025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TUFFC.2025.3590025","url":null,"abstract":"Power Doppler (PD) ultrasound imaging provides high-quality, non-invasive visualization of blood flow and has the potential to be used for circulation screening. However, its application in human arterial imaging remains challenging due to the presence of complex hyperechoic moving structures (HMS). In this study, we propose an adaptive Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) filtering strategy for HMS suppression. The proposed method used a k-means clustering algorithm directly on pre-beamformed IQ data to segment HMS and non-HMS regions, followed by an adaptive SVD filtering strategy tailored to each tissue type. Compared to existing SVD filtering methods, the proposed approach can effectively suppress the HMS artifacts. In addition, human carotid artery imaging experiments demonstrate significant improvement in HMS suppression throughout cardiac cycles and across various imaging locations. With such capability, we believe that the proposed strategy will be a useful tool in applying PD for the 3D imaging of human blood vessels.","PeriodicalId":13322,"journal":{"name":"IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control","volume":"PP ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144659106","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Extending the transmit and receive bandwidths of dual-frequency transducers towards clinical acoustic angiography: in vitro and in vivo studies. 延长双频换能器的发送和接收带宽，用于临床声学血管造影：体外和体内研究。

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IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control Pub Date : 2025-07-17 DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2025.3586556

Kathlyne Jayne B Bautista, Emmanuel Cherin, Jianhua Yin, Elvira C Vazquez Avila, F Stuart Foster, Christine E M Demore, Paul A Dayton

{"title":"Extending the transmit and receive bandwidths of dual-frequency transducers towards clinical acoustic angiography: in vitro and in vivo studies.","authors":"Kathlyne Jayne B Bautista, Emmanuel Cherin, Jianhua Yin, Elvira C Vazquez Avila, F Stuart Foster, Christine E M Demore, Paul A Dayton","doi":"10.1109/TUFFC.2025.3586556","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TUFFC.2025.3586556","url":null,"abstract":"Acoustic angiography leverages the superharmonic response of microbubbles against linear tissue to generate 3-D maps of microvasculature. This contrast-enhanced ultrasound imaging approach uses dual-frequency transducers that transmit at frequencies less than 5 MHz and receive at frequencies three times or greater than the fundamental frequency to selectively detect microbubble signal. Previous iterations of the hardware were designed mainly to image preclinical models. In pilot clinical imaging studies, these transducers suffered from poor microbubble sensitivity and shallow imaging depths. Here, we investigate multiple dual-frequency transducers operating at varying transmit frequencies less than 2 MHz and center receive frequencies ranging from 7 to 18 MHz designed for deeper imaging and greater bubble sensitivity than earlier generation devices.We assess the superharmonic imaging performance of these transducers in vitro and in vivo by characterizing contrast sensitivity and resolution. We demonstrate improvements in sensitivity at lower transmit (<1 MHz) and receive (<10 MHz) frequencies, measuring contrast signal enhancement up to 31.8 dB. At these lower frequencies, we also achieve imaging depths up to 50-55 mm - the deepest application of acoustic angiography to date. These advances in imaging sensitivity and depth address the primary barriers to the clinical translation of acoustic angiography.","PeriodicalId":13322,"journal":{"name":"IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control","volume":"PP ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144659107","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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High-Volume Acquisition Rate Nonlinear Imaging Enables Robust 3D Ultrasound Localization Microscopy. 高容量采集率非线性成像使鲁棒三维超声定位显微镜。

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IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control Pub Date : 2025-07-16 DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2025.3589815

YiRang Shin, Bing-Ze Lin, Matthew R Lowerison, Qi You, Pengfei Song

{"title":"High-Volume Acquisition Rate Nonlinear Imaging Enables Robust 3D Ultrasound Localization Microscopy.","authors":"YiRang Shin, Bing-Ze Lin, Matthew R Lowerison, Qi You, Pengfei Song","doi":"10.1109/TUFFC.2025.3589815","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TUFFC.2025.3589815","url":null,"abstract":"3D ultrasound localization microscopy (ULM) enables comprehensive mapping of microvascular networks by providing micron-scale spatial resolution while avoiding projection errors inherent to 2D ULM imaging. Current 3D ULM techniques are based on linear pulse sequences combined with spatiotemporal filtering to distinguish microbubble flow from tissue signals. However, singular-value decomposition (SVD)-based filtering demonstrates poor performance in highly mobile organs, suppressing small vessels with slow blood flow along with tissue signals. While imaging based on nonlinear multi-pulse sequences can isolate microbubble signals regardless of tissue motion, achieving the high-volume acquisition rates required for 3D ULM remains technically challenging. Here, we present Fast3D-Amplitude Modulation (AM) imaging, a 3D nonlinear imaging sequence that achieve high-volume acquisition rate (225 Hz) using a single 256-channel ultrasound system with a multiplexed 2D matrix array. We also introduce a motion rejection algorithm that leverages localized microbubble positions to reject respiratory-induced motion artifacts. Fast3D-AM imaging achieved superior contrast-to-tissue ratio (CTR) than Fast3D, exhibiting a 6.66 dB improvement in phantom studies. In in vivo rat study, Fast3D-AM demonstrated higher CTR across all SVD cutoffs compared to Fast3D and preserve both major and microvascular structures in whole-organ kidney imaging.","PeriodicalId":13322,"journal":{"name":"IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control","volume":"PP ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144649310","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Off-Grid Ultrasound Imaging by Stochastic Optimization. 随机优化离网格超声成像。

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IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control Pub Date : 2025-07-08 DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2025.3586377

Vincent Van de Schaft, Oisin Nolan, Ruud Jg Van Sloun

{"title":"Off-Grid Ultrasound Imaging by Stochastic Optimization.","authors":"Vincent Van de Schaft, Oisin Nolan, Ruud Jg Van Sloun","doi":"10.1109/TUFFC.2025.3586377","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TUFFC.2025.3586377","url":null,"abstract":"Ultrasound images formed by delay-and-sum beamforming are plagued by artifacts that only clear up after compounding many transmissions. One promising way to mitigate this is posing imaging as an inverse problem. Inverse problem-based imaging approaches can yield high image quality with few transmits, but existing methods require a very fine image grid and are not robust to changes in measurement model parameters. We present INverse grid-Free Estimation of Reflectivities (INFER), an off-grid and stochastic algorithm that finds a solution to the inverse scattering problem in ultrasound imaging. Our method jointly optimizes for the locations of the gridpoints, their reflectivities, and the speed of sound. This approach allows us to use fewer gridpoints than existing methods. At the same time it obtains 2-3x higher far field lateral resolution and 6-68% higher gCNR on in-vivo data, and it is robust to speed of sound changes of up to ±100m/s. The use of stochastic optimization enables solving for multiple transmissions simultaneously without increasing the required memory or computational load per iteration. We show that our method works on both phantom and in-vivo data and compares favorably against existing beamforming methods. The source code and the dataset to reproduce the results in this paper are available at www.github.com/vincentvdschaft/ off-grid-ultrasound.","PeriodicalId":13322,"journal":{"name":"IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control","volume":"PP ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144583814","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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High-Quality Passive Acoustic Mapping with the Cross-Correlated Angular Spectrum Method. 交叉相关角谱法的高质量被动声学映射。

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IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control Pub Date : 2025-07-07 DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2025.3586460

Yi Zeng, Shixiao W Jiang, Hui Zhu, Jinwei Li, Jianfeng Li, Fei Li, Shukuan Lu, Xiran Cai

{"title":"High-Quality Passive Acoustic Mapping with the Cross-Correlated Angular Spectrum Method.","authors":"Yi Zeng, Shixiao W Jiang, Hui Zhu, Jinwei Li, Jianfeng Li, Fei Li, Shukuan Lu, Xiran Cai","doi":"10.1109/TUFFC.2025.3586460","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TUFFC.2025.3586460","url":null,"abstract":"While passive acoustic mapping (PAM) has been advanced for monitoring acoustic cavitation activity in focused ultrasound (FUS) therapy, achieving both real-time and high-quality imaging capabilities is still challenging. The angular spectrum (AS) method presents the most efficient algorithm for PAM, but it suffers from artifacts and low resolution due to the diffraction pattern of the imaging array. Data-adaptive beamformers suppress artifacts well, but their overwhelming computational complexity, more than two orders of magnitude higher than the classical time exposure acoustic (TEA) method, hinders their application in real-time. In this work, we introduce the cross-correlated AS method to address the challenge. This method is based on cross-correlating the AS back-propagated wave fields, in the frequency domain, measured by different apodized sub-apertures of the transducer array to provide the normalized correlation coefficient (NCC) matrix for artifacts suppression. We observed that the spatial pattern of NCC matrix is variable which can be utilized by the triple apodization with cross-correlation (TAX) with AS scheme, namely the AS-TAX method, for optimal artifacts suppression outcomes. Both the phantom and mouse tumor experiments showed that: 1) the AS-TAX method has comparable image quality as the data-adaptive beamformers, reducing the energy spread area by 34.8-65.0% and improving image signal-to-noise ratio by 10.6-14.4 dB compared to TEA; 2) it reduces the computational complexity by two orders of magnitude compared to TEA allowing millisecond-level image reconstruction speed with a parallel implementation; 3) it can well map microbubble cavitation activity of different status (stable or inertial). The AS-TAX method represents a real-time approach to monitor cavitation-based FUS therapy with high image quality.","PeriodicalId":13322,"journal":{"name":"IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control","volume":"PP ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144583813","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Real-time 3D Passive Acoustic Mapping for Row-column Arrays with the Cross-spectrum method. 基于交叉谱法的行-列阵列实时三维被动声映射。

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IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control Pub Date : 2025-07-02 DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2025.3585301

Hui Zhu, Yi Zeng, Jianfeng Li, Kailiang Xu, Xiran Cai

{"title":"Real-time 3D Passive Acoustic Mapping for Row-column Arrays with the Cross-spectrum method.","authors":"Hui Zhu, Yi Zeng, Jianfeng Li, Kailiang Xu, Xiran Cai","doi":"10.1109/TUFFC.2025.3585301","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TUFFC.2025.3585301","url":null,"abstract":"Real-time and three-dimensional (3D) monitoring of cavitation activity is critical for safe, effective and controlled treatments in cavitation-based focused ultrasound (FUS) therapies. This 3D monitoring capability is essential for detecting off-target cavitation events, particularly in at-risk structures and those occurring outside the plane of 2D imaging. In this work, we demonstrate that using row-column arrays (RCAs) for 3D passive acoustic mapping (PAM), which can be easily integrated to commercial ultrasound scanners compared to using hemispherical arrays or matrix arrays, represents a potent solution. For that, we propose the RCA-PAM method for image formation. This method deploys the angular spectrum (AS) method to back-propagate 3D harmonic wave fields using the passively received cavitation signals by the RCA's row and column apertures, respectively. Then, the 3D PAM volume is obtained by integrating the cross-spectrum of the two wave fields over selected bandwidth. To further reduce image artifacts, we combine AS with dual-apodization with cross-correlation (AS-DAX) for wave field propagation. Our experiments showed that, RCA-PAM achieved 0.04±0.07 mm source localization error and comparable image-quality as the ones reconstructed for the matrix array (same aperture size). We realized over 40 volumes/second reconstruction speed for a volume sized 128×128×250 voxels, using all frequency components in the RCA's working bandwidth. We also demonstrate the seamless combination of RCA-PAM and B-mode imaging using the same RCA for 3D monitoring of MB cavitation activity in a mouse tumor model. In summary, the use of RCAs for cavitation monitoring represents a promising avenue to minimize treatment risks in cavitation-based FUS therapies.","PeriodicalId":13322,"journal":{"name":"IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control","volume":"PP ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144553398","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Publication Information IEEE超音波学、铁电学与频率控制论文集

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IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control Pub Date : 2025-07-01 DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2025.3577872

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Spatially Variant Ultrasound Image Restoration with Product Convolution. 基于积卷积的空间变异超声图像恢复。

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IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control Pub Date : 2025-06-30 DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2025.3584533

Arthur Floquet, Emmanuel Soubies, Duong-Hung Pham, Denis Kouame

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In Vivo Ultrasound Dynamic Coronary Blood Flow Imaging through Adaptive Frame Selection Method. 基于自适应帧选择方法的体内超声动态冠状动脉血流成像。

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IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control Pub Date : 2025-06-25 DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2025.3582154

Deng-Yan Zhuang, Hsin Huang, Wei-Ting Chang, Chih-Chung Huang

{"title":"In Vivo Ultrasound Dynamic Coronary Blood Flow Imaging through Adaptive Frame Selection Method.","authors":"Deng-Yan Zhuang, Hsin Huang, Wei-Ting Chang, Chih-Chung Huang","doi":"10.1109/TUFFC.2025.3582154","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TUFFC.2025.3582154","url":null,"abstract":"Use of ultrasound for coronary imaging in commercial echocardiography remains challenging because of the small nature of coronary vasculature and the myocardium's intricate motion. Several super-resolution imaging techniques have been applied for coronary imaging; however, most only measure the coronary flow during the diastolic phase and have a long data acquisition time. To address these problems, this study proposes an adaptive frame selection approach for coronary vasculature imaging. In this approach, similar frames within cardiac cycles are selected using the sum of absolute difference (SAD) algorithm, and the coronary vasculature blood flow is calculated without using electrocardiographic gating data. Experiments were performed in mouse hearts through high-frequency ultrafast ultrasound imaging. After similar frames were selected from several cardiac cycles (one to five cycles), a singular value decomposition filter was applied to extract blood flow signals and obtain a dynamic coronary vasculature image, the accuracy of which was confirmed by measuring Doppler sonograms from the left coronary artery and arterioles. The conventional method (without SAD), in which only blood flow in the diastolic phase is calculated, was also conducted to enable a comparison in terms of measured vessel size and signal-to-noise ratio. The signal-to-noise ratio for the proposed approach were found to be 20.74 ± 1.62 dB, under the best parameter settings. The proposed approach was successfully verified in the small animal model and has potential for use in human dynamic coronary artery imaging.","PeriodicalId":13322,"journal":{"name":"IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control","volume":"PP ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144496099","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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