2019 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS)最新文献

Acoustic Holograms Allow the Generation of Complex Fields Inside the Central Nervous System 声学全息图允许在中枢神经系统内产生复杂的场

2019 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS) Pub Date : 2019-10-01 DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2019.8925899

Sergio Jiménez-Gambín, N. Jiménez, J. Benlloch, F. Camarena

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引用次数: 1

Travel-Time Tomography for Local Sound Speed Reconstruction Using Average Sound Speeds 利用平均声速重建局部声速的走时层析成像

2019 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS) Pub Date : 2019-10-01 DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2019.8925890

Rehman Ali, J. Dahl

引用次数: 9

High contrast imaging of low boiling point phase change contrast agents in moving tissue with ultrafast inter-frame activation imaging sequence 低沸点相变造影剂在运动组织中的高对比度超快速帧间激活成像

2019 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS) Pub Date : 2019-10-01 DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2019.8925898

Bowen Jing, Milton E Brown, Michael E. Davis, B. Lindsey

{"title":"High contrast imaging of low boiling point phase change contrast agents in moving tissue with ultrafast inter-frame activation imaging sequence","authors":"Bowen Jing, Milton E Brown, Michael E. Davis, B. Lindsey","doi":"10.1109/ULTSYM.2019.8925898","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ULTSYM.2019.8925898","url":null,"abstract":"Nanoscale phase change contrast agents (PCCA) have been demonstrated for extravascular imaging in tissue. However, contrast in PCCA images is typically limited by physiological motion and incomplete cancelation of unwanted tissue signal. In this work, we develop an ultrafast inter-frame activation imaging sequence for high contrast PCCA imaging in the presence of physiological motion by imaging the inter-frame variation produced by activation of PCCA, which is distinguishable from tissue and blood motion. Phantom studies indicate that in the absence of tissue motion, the CTR of UIAU images is 19.55±0.42 dB while the CTR of the amplitude modulate + pulse inversion (AMPI) is 8.15±0.65 dB and the CTR of differential imaging is 24.20±1.22 dB. Furthermore, the CTR of these UIAU images can reach 51.43±3.3 dB by applying a denoising approach. With 20 mm/s motion, the CTR of UIAU and denoised UIAU images were 18.70±1.40 dB and 31.77±9.76 dB respectively, which were both significantly higher than that of amplitude modulation + pulse inversion (AMPI) and differential images. The preliminary in vivo imaging results indicate the UIAU could significantly suppress the background tissue in the presence of physiological motion.","PeriodicalId":6759,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS)","volume":"18 1","pages":"135-138"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74598069","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}

引用次数: 1

Mechanical Characterization of Biofilms by Optical Coherence Elastography (OCE) Measurements of Elastic Waves 利用光学相干弹性成像(OCE)测量弹性波来表征生物膜的力学特性

2019 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS) Pub Date : 2019-10-01 DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2019.8925665

Hong-Cin Liou, F. Sabba, G. Wells, O. Balogun

引用次数: 2

A 2D Capacitive Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducer (CMUT) Array with Through-Glass-Via Interconnects Fabricated Using Sacrificial Etching Process 采用牺牲蚀刻工艺制备了一种具有玻璃通孔互连的二维电容式微机械超声换能器阵列

2019 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS) Pub Date : 2019-10-01 DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2019.8925783

O. Adelegan, Zachary A. Coutant, Xiao Zhang, F. Y. Yamaner, Ömer Oralkan

引用次数: 1

Foveated Nonlocal Means Despeckle Filtering for Ultrasound Imaging: Imaging Perspective 超声成像的注视点非局部均值去斑滤波:成像视角

2019 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS) Pub Date : 2019-10-01 DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2019.8925644

Yu-Cheng Chang, Meng-Lin Li

{"title":"Foveated Nonlocal Means Despeckle Filtering for Ultrasound Imaging: Imaging Perspective","authors":"Yu-Cheng Chang, Meng-Lin Li","doi":"10.1109/ULTSYM.2019.8925644","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ULTSYM.2019.8925644","url":null,"abstract":"Ultrasound speckle noise degrades imaging contrast and hides anatomical details; thus causing inaccuracy in clinical diagnosis. Although speckle reduction methods such as classical nonlocal means (NLM), optimized Bayesian nonlocal means (OBNLM), and speckle reducing anisotropic diffusion (SRAD) filters have been proposed for years, they still suffer two major problems – insufficient preservation of characteristic details such as calcifications and inordinate blurring making image appearance artificial. To solve the two problems, we propose a novel foveated nonlocal means despeckle filtering technique, inspired by the human visual system. Conventional NLM filters despeckle via searching for analogous patches at different areas within the image and then estimating the impulse response by the degrees of similarity appraised by a windowed Euler distance between the target and searching patches. In our technique, foveated self-similarity is used instead of conventional self-similarity. The foveated self-similarity is based on a new patch operator mimicking human retina properties, sharpening patch pixels in the center and blurring them near the periphery. Moreover, throughout the literature, the tuning of the search window and patch sizes and other parameters are not consistent; nonetheless, in this study, they are tuned universally from imaging perspective, i.e., according to the size of point spread function which allows the adaption to different imaging systems and settings. Simulations and clinical data (not shown here) were used to verify our proposed method. The performance of our proposed method is also compared with the classical despeckle filters. The results demonstrate that the proposed technique can remove speckles forcefully while more effectively retaining structural edge details, textures, and point-like structures. Quantitative measures such as contrast-to-noise ratio, edge preservation index and contrast measure are also presented.","PeriodicalId":6759,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS)","volume":"9 1","pages":"2064-2066"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74266777","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}

引用次数: 1

Growth, Properties, and Applications of Al1-xScxN Thin Films Al1-xScxN薄膜的生长、性能及应用

2019 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS) Pub Date : 2019-10-01 DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2019.8926081

P. Muralt, V. Pashchenko, F. Parsapour, S. Mertin, B. Heinz, P. Nicolay

引用次数: 1

One-port SAW resonator on diamond made of isotopically enriched 12C 同位素富集12C金刚石的单端口SAW谐振器

2019 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS) Pub Date : 2019-10-01 DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2019.8925654

S. Fujii, T. Teraji, Takahiro Shimaoka, K. Ichikawa, S. Koizumi

引用次数: 0

Blind source separation-based tracking of ARFIinduced displacements for improved automatic delineation of carotid plaque components in humans, in vivo 基于盲源分离的arfid诱导的位移跟踪，用于改进人体内颈动脉斑块成分的自动描绘

2019 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS) Pub Date : 2019-10-01 DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2019.8925757

Gabriela Torres, Tomasz J. Czernuszewicz, C. Gallippi

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引用次数: 1

Optimal Prefiltered Stochastic Transmitted Waves for Fat Inclusion Detection in Milk with Harmonic Ultrasound 谐波超声检测牛奶中脂肪夹杂物的最优预滤波随机透射波

2019 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS) Pub Date : 2019-10-01 DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2019.8925979

S. Ménigot, Nesrine Houhat, J. Girault

{"title":"Optimal Prefiltered Stochastic Transmitted Waves for Fat Inclusion Detection in Milk with Harmonic Ultrasound","authors":"S. Ménigot, Nesrine Houhat, J. Girault","doi":"10.1109/ULTSYM.2019.8925979","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ULTSYM.2019.8925979","url":null,"abstract":"In non destructive testing, improvements have been made possible by taking into account the harmonic frequencies, as in agri-food domain. The transmitted signal are often selected empirically as a fixed-frequency Gaussian pulse, by taking into account the transducer bandwidth only. However, waveform should take into account all the features of the ultrasound system and of the medium. To design the waveform, a genetic algorithm looks for the best stochastic wave. However, one of limitations in this optimization process is the high amount of transmitted waves. To reduce this number, instead of transmitting wide band stochastic waves, narrow band stochastic waves limited by the transducer bandwidth are preferred. The optimization was thus applied on the detection of fat cluster in milk by maximizing the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), while decreasing the amount of transmitted waves. Twelve combinations from different limited bandwidths of transmitted waves were tested. Whereas the low cut-off frequencies did not change the performances, the high cut-off frequencies affected the convergence speed. In this study, it is shown that the best optimization was twelve times faster with the high cut-off frequency of 5.6 MHz and led to a gain of 62% compared to the SNR obtained with a best fixed-frequency sine wave.","PeriodicalId":6759,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS)","volume":"342 1","pages":"631-634"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75940378","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}

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