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Analytical Estimation of Beamforming Speed-of-Sound Using Transmission Geometry

Bezek, Can Deniz (författare)
Uppsala universitet,Avdelningen Vi3,Bildanalys och människa-datorinteraktion
Göksel, Orcun (författare)
Uppsala universitet,Avdelningen Vi3,Bildanalys och människa-datorinteraktion
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Elsevier, 2023
2023
Engelska.
Ingår i: Ultrasonics. - : Elsevier. - 0041-624X .- 1874-9968. ; 134
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  • Most ultrasound imaging techniques necessitate the fundamental step of converting temporal signals received from transducer elements into a spatial echogenecity map. This beamforming (BF) step requires the knowledge of speed-of-sound (SoS) value in the imaged medium. An incorrect assumption of BF SoS leads to aberration artifacts, not only deteriorating the quality and resolution of conventional brightness mode (B-mode) images, hence limiting their clinical usability, but also impairing other ultrasound modalities such as elastography and spatial SoS reconstructions, which rely on faithfully beamformed images as their input. In this work, we propose an analytical method for estimating BF SoS. We show that pixel-wise relative shifts between frames beamformed with an assumed SoS is a function of geometric disparities of the transmission paths and the error in such SoS assumption. Using this relation, we devise an analytical model, the closed form solution of which yields the difference between the assumed and the true SoS in the medium. Based on this, we correct the BF SoS, which can also be applied iteratively. Both in simulations and experiments, lateral B-mode resolution is shown to be improved by ≈ 25% compared to that with an initial SoS assumption error of 3.3% (50 m/s), while localization artifacts from beamforming are also corrected. After 5 iterations, our method achieves BF SoS errors of under 0.6 m/s in simulations. Residual time-delay errors in beamforming 32 numerical phantoms are shown to reduce down to 0.07 µs, with average improvements of up to 21 folds compared to initial inaccurate assumptions. We additionally show the utility of the proposed method in imaging local SoS maps, where using our correction method reduces reconstruction root-mean-square errors substantially, down to their lower-bound with actual BF SoS.

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TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER  -- Medicinteknik -- Medicinsk bildbehandling (hsv//swe)
ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY  -- Medical Engineering -- Medical Image Processing (hsv//eng)

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Beamforming
Aberration correction
USCT

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Bezek, Can Deniz
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