Henri Österberg, J. Mäkinen, Johannes Schavikin, Fabio Valoppit, Dmitry Nikolaev, Ivo Laidmäe, J. Heinamaki, A. Salmi, Edward Hægström
{"title":"Scaling-up the Ultrasound-Enhanced Electrospinning Device","authors":"Henri Österberg, J. Mäkinen, Johannes Schavikin, Fabio Valoppit, Dmitry Nikolaev, Ivo Laidmäe, J. Heinamaki, A. Salmi, Edward Hægström","doi":"10.1109/IUS54386.2022.9958928","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IUS54386.2022.9958928","url":null,"abstract":"Ultrasound-enhanced electrospinning (USES) is an electrospinning method that utilizes focused ultrasound to produce nanofibers. The focused ultrasound creates an acoustic fountain on a polymer solution surface. With a high-voltage electric field, electrospinning is initiated from the fountain. Until now USES has been limited by its production rate due to the use of a single ultrasound transducer. Here we present a multi-transducer USES device, with a similar footprint as our old device. Increase in throughput was studied using three of the transducers. Simultaneous, stable spinning, with three transducers was not achieved, however we double the amount of produced fiber with two transducers. Compared to the previous USES device, the results indicate that USES can potentially be scaled up.","PeriodicalId":272387,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129594140","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Numerical spatial impulse response evaluations of lossy media","authors":"Drew A. Murray, R. McGough","doi":"10.1109/IUS54386.2022.9957448","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IUS54386.2022.9957448","url":null,"abstract":"The spatial impulse response in lossless media can be evaluated exactly with analytical expressions that are specific to individual transducer shapes. These expressions describe the effect of diffraction in the time domain by analytically evaluating the Rayleigh integral. No exact analytical expressions are presently available for lossy media, so numerical methods must be used instead. The spatial impulse response is numeri-cally computed by superposing contributions from time-domain Green's functions weighted by the area of the corresponding section of the piston source. The causal time-domain Green's function for the Power Law Wave Equation is used to evaluate these individual contributions. The spatial impulse response can be numerically evaluated this way for lossy media and for any shape of transducer. The numerically computed lossy result converges to the analytical lossless result as the value of the attenuation constant decreases. Conversely, as the attenuation constant increases, the temporal extent increases, and the sharp edges become increasingly smooth curves.","PeriodicalId":272387,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129745656","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
T. Zhang, Haolin Zhang, Yeyu Cao, Rui Guo, Hongyu Zhou, Maokun Li, Fan Yang, Shenheng Xu
{"title":"A Feasibility Study of Low-frequency Ultrasound Tomography for Human Thorax","authors":"T. Zhang, Haolin Zhang, Yeyu Cao, Rui Guo, Hongyu Zhou, Maokun Li, Fan Yang, Shenheng Xu","doi":"10.1109/IUS54386.2022.9957971","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IUS54386.2022.9957971","url":null,"abstract":"Ultrasound is widely used in biomedical imaging. High-frequency ultrasound at MHz is usually used for good resolution. However, ultrasound at this band cannot permeate human thorax, for it is strongly scattered and reflected by air inclusions in the thorax. We attempt to detect thorax using low-frequency ultrasound transmitting through thorax with travel-time tomography. The ultrasound we use is at a few tens of kHz, which mitigates the influence of scattering and reflection. Transducers are fixed around the thorax via a manual elastic belt. Each of them serves as transmitter in turn and the rest serve as receivers. The traveltime of signals is picked and the acoustic velocity distribution of thorax is computed, from which we can compute the acoustic velocity distribution of the subject's thorax. In the inversion result, the outline of lungs can be seen and the distribution differs when the subject breathes in and out. This result verifies that it is possible to imaging human thorax using low-frequency ultrasound.","PeriodicalId":272387,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS)","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128226609","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nicholas A. Campbell, Nicole MacMullin, Rachel. Kiefl, Eptehal Nashnoush, K. Latham, C. D. Emery, Jeremy A. Brown
{"title":"A High-Performance 3D Imaging Technique Using Simultaneous Azimuth and Elevation Compounding","authors":"Nicholas A. Campbell, Nicole MacMullin, Rachel. Kiefl, Eptehal Nashnoush, K. Latham, C. D. Emery, Jeremy A. Brown","doi":"10.1109/IUS54386.2022.9957541","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IUS54386.2022.9957541","url":null,"abstract":"A new technique for 3D imaging with a row-column array configuration has been developed. The technique requires an electrostrictive piezoelectric for the active substrate. While the top set of electrodes are connected to RF transmit and receive channels for conventional diverging wave imaging, the orthogonal bottom set of electrodes are connected to independently controlled variable DC bias channels. By implementing modulated bias patterns compounded across multiple pulses, fine delay control across the bottom elements can be achieved simultaneously to imaging with the top set of electrodes. This resulted in a high-quality 2-way focus in both azimuth and elevation. A 20 MHz electrostrictive composite substrate was fabricated and 64 top by 64 bottom electrodes were patterned and connected to custom beamforming and biasing electronics. The point spread functions were generated in all dimensions and the -6 dB resolution was measured to be 93 µm axially, 272 µm in the azimuth, and 328 µm in the elevation dimension. This was in good agreement with the simulated resolutions of 80 µm, 273 µm, and 280 µm respectively.","PeriodicalId":272387,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS)","volume":"78 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128321072","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tajwar Abrar Aleef, Qi Zeng, H. Moradi, S. Mohammed, T. Currant, M. Honarvar, R. Rohling, S. S. Mahdavi, S. Salcudean
{"title":"3D Shear Wave Absolute Vibro-Elastography System for Targeted Prostate Biopsy: Initial Results","authors":"Tajwar Abrar Aleef, Qi Zeng, H. Moradi, S. Mohammed, T. Currant, M. Honarvar, R. Rohling, S. S. Mahdavi, S. Salcudean","doi":"10.1109/IUS54386.2022.9958838","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IUS54386.2022.9958838","url":null,"abstract":"Quantitative tissue stiffness characterization can aid in diagnosing prostate cancer (PCa). Shear wave absolute vibro-elastography (SWAVE) provides volumetric, multi-frequency shear wave imaging with external excitation. In this work, we present a first-of-a-kind 3D multi-frequency endo-rectal SWAVE system with probe-mounted exciter for prostate imaging. The system uses a SonixTouch Ultrasound (US) with minimum hardware addition- making it compatible with the current clinical workflow. The exciter is designed to be sterilizable and it attaches to the US transducer and is programmed with a function generator. Sector-wise sequencing is utilized to boost the effective framerate of the US and satisfy the Nyquist sampling rate for tissue motion tracking. We characterize the system with quality assurance elastography phantoms and human liver data of healthy subjects- comparing with 3D Magnetic Resonance Elastography (MRE). High correlations between SWAVE and MRE were obtained in both phantoms (99%) and liver (94%).","PeriodicalId":272387,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS)","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128511291","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alexander Pattyn, Karl Kratkiewicz, M. Mehrmohammadi
{"title":"Acoustical and Optical Compensation for Spectral Unmixing of Sulfates using Ultrasound and Photoacoustic Tomography: In Silico and In Vitro Results","authors":"Alexander Pattyn, Karl Kratkiewicz, M. Mehrmohammadi","doi":"10.1109/IUS54386.2022.9957449","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IUS54386.2022.9957449","url":null,"abstract":"Photoacoustic tomography (PAT) is a powerful adjunct to ultrasound tomography (UST), as it can provide functional and molecular information in addition to the structural information from UST. This means markers such as hypoxia and angiogenesis can be used in combination with acoustic sound speed (SS) and attenuation to aid in the diagnosis of tumors and other pathologies. However, one area of active research in photoacoustic imaging (PAI) is correcting for heterogeneous acoustic and optical properties. If left uncounted for, errors can be introduced into quantitative measurements such as oxygen saturation rendering them unsuitable for use by physicians. Therefore, a need exists to correct for these heterogeneities and to provide useful quantitative measurements. Here we have extended our previous work on model-based acoustic and optical compensation to improve spectral unmixing, to demonstrate the potential future improvements in in vivo oxygen saturation measurements. In silico and in vitro results were analyzed and showed that raw (uncompensated) PAT images measure the ratio of Cuso4/Total dye concentration with an error of up to 56% compared to the ground truth. Once optical compensation was applied Cuso4/Total Dye concentration was shown to have that the error was significantly reduced to ~4-5%. Marking a large improvement in the accuracy of linear unmixing and holding promise for this approach in improving results for future ex vivo and in vivo studies","PeriodicalId":272387,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS)","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128545693","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fabrication of high kt2and k’ 352 Sc0.4A10.6N thin films by RF magnetron sputtering","authors":"Y. Shimizu, T. Yanagitani","doi":"10.1109/IUS54386.2022.9957523","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IUS54386.2022.9957523","url":null,"abstract":"Scandium aluminum nitride (ScAlN) films are commercially used for RF filter application owing to their large thickness extensional mode electromechanical coupling coefficient $k_{mathrm{t}}{}^{2}$. In addition, c-axis tilted ScAlN films are good candidates for biosensors and gyro-sensors because of their high quasi thickness shear mode $k_{35^{2}}^{prime}$. In this study, we fabricated c-axis oriented (0001) Sco.4Alo.6N thin film and c-axis 34° tilted Sco.4Alo.6N thin film by RF magnetron sputtering. $k_{mathrm{t}}{}^{2}$ of the c-axis oriented (0001) Sco.4Alo.6N film was evaluated to be 21.4% by CL method and approximately 28% by other four kinds of $k_{mathrm{t}}{}^{2}$ estimation methods. $k_{35^{2}}^{prime}$ of the c-axis tilted Sc0.4Al0.6N film was evaluated to be at least 22.9%. These high $k_{mathrm{t}}{}^{2}$ and $k_{35^{2}}^{prime}$ of the Sco.4Alo.6N thin films can be attributed to the high crystalline orientation and the suppression of abnormally oriented grains (AOGs) at high Sc concentration.","PeriodicalId":272387,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS)","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128594731","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Multi-task learning framework for echocardiography segmentation","authors":"P. Monkam, Songbai Jin, Wen-kai Lu","doi":"10.1109/IUS54386.2022.9957223","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IUS54386.2022.9957223","url":null,"abstract":"Automatic delineation of cardiac structure in echocardiography (echo) is of significant importance in the diagnosis and prognosis of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs). Although numerous convolutional neural network (CNN) models have been developed for this purpose, they mainly focused on multi-structure segmentation or single-structure segmentation. However, there are some cases whereby only a specific structure needs to be analyzed, and training multiple deep learning models to achieve multiple single structure segmentation tasks is time-consuming and involves many complex training steps. In this paper, we investigate the feasibility of training a single CNN to achieve multiple cardiac structure segmentation tasks. Specifically, we propose a multitask learning (MTL) framework to segment left ventricle (LV), LV wall and LV+LV wall, simultaneously. It is worth noting that this is the first attempt to consider the segmentation of LV+LV wall as an auxiliary task to enhance the performance of LV and LV wall segmentation, respectively. Moreover, besides multi-structure segmentation, no study has investigated the individual segmentation of LV and LV wall using a single CNN model. The advantages of our proposed framework are assessed through conducting extensive segmentation experiments with two state-of-the-art segmentation models: UNet and DeeplabV3. The obtained results indicate that better performance can be achieved using a single CNN model to delineate multiple cardiac structures simultaneously.","PeriodicalId":272387,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS)","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128996835","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dual-Axis MEMS Micro-Mirror Based On Lithium Niobate Thin-Film","authors":"Yaoqing Lu, Kangfu Liu, Tao Wu","doi":"10.1109/IUS54386.2022.9958446","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IUS54386.2022.9958446","url":null,"abstract":"This work presents a novel piezoelectric actuated dual-axis micro-mirror using the Lithium Niobate (LiNbO<inf>3</inf>) thin-film on insulator (LNOI) platform. The performances of the proposed MEMS mirror are analyzed by the COMSOL 3D FEM simulation. Thanks to the strong e<inf>31</inf> and e<inf>33</inf> of LiNbO<inf>3</inf> thin film in specific orientations, which contribute to high effective piezoelectric constants e<inf>31</inf>,.f, the proposed dual-axis micro-mirror demonstrate high optical deflection angles in both of scanning modes. The design with LN ß = 123° demonstrates a high deflection of 23.5° for fast scan, which is 14.7× of AIN and 5.3× of Al<inf>0.7</inf>Sc<inf>0.3</inf>N. The simulation results show that the mirror based on LNOI comprehensively surpasses the design with aluminum nitride (AIN) or Sc-doped aluminum nitride (Al<inf>1-x</inf>Sc<inf>x</inf>N). This work demonstrates that LNOI is a promising platform for piezoelectric dual-axis MEMS mirrors.","PeriodicalId":272387,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS)","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129037717","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Fusco, Martin Krueger, Andreas Froemel, Veena George, Christian Bretthauer
{"title":"MEMS Microphone Array for Airborne Ultrasonic 3D Tracking","authors":"A. Fusco, Martin Krueger, Andreas Froemel, Veena George, Christian Bretthauer","doi":"10.1109/IUS54386.2022.9958458","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IUS54386.2022.9958458","url":null,"abstract":"This contribution illustrates how to design a newly developed modular hardware platform to enable hand tracking. The proposed system features Infineon's innovative MEMS transceivers combining best-in-class audio performance and ultrasonic pulse-echo measurement capabilities. Specifically, the MEMS device can be excited with ultrasonic bursts between 20000 Hz and 90000 Hz to function as ultrasonic speaker. The devices have a miniaturized package (3.6× 2.5×1 mm3), consume very little power (<2 mW), achieve an SNR of 70 dB(A), and have standard microphone interfaces. In this work we demonstrate how these devices can be effectively integrated, meeting the more stringent requirements of battery-powered miniaturized systems, such as True-Wireless Stereo (TWS) earbuds.","PeriodicalId":272387,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129429950","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}