A novel array processing method for precise depth detection of ultrasound point scatter

Konstantinos Diamantis; Paul Dalgarno; Alan Howard Greenaway; Tom Anderson; Jørgen Arendt Jensen; Vassilis Sboros

doi:10.1109/ICASSP.2016.7471759

A novel array processing method for precise depth detection of ultrasound point scatter

Konstantinos Diamantis, Paul Dalgarno, Alan Howard Greenaway, Tom Anderson, Jørgen Arendt Jensen, Vassilis Sboros

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Abstract

A signal based algorithm resulting in increased depth resolution is presented for medical ultrasound. It relies on multiple foci beamforming that is enabled by current ultrasound imaging systems. The concept stems from optical microscopy and is translated here into ultrasound using the Field II simulation software. A 7 MHz linear transducer is used to scan a single point scatterer phantom that can move in the axial direction. Individual beamformer outputs from 3 different foci are post-processed using the highly-dependent on focusing errors, metric of sharpness to estimate the position of the point scatter. A 37.8 μm uncertainty in depth estimation is achieved, which attains an almost 3-fold improvement compared to conventional ultrasound imaging axial resolution. Future work on the development of this algorithm requires experimental validation in tissue-like materials that provide strong aberrations.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2016 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	669-673
Number of pages	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP.2016.7471759
Publication status	Published - 2016
Event	41st IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing 2016 - Shanghai International Convention Center, Shanghai, China Duration: 20 Mar 2016 → 25 Mar 2016

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Conference	41st IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing 2016
Abbreviated title	ICASSP 2016
Country/Territory	China
City	Shanghai
Period	20/03/16 → 25/03/16

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Diamantis, K, Dalgarno, P, Greenaway, AH, Anderson, T, Jensen, JA & Sboros, V 2016, A novel array processing method for precise depth detection of ultrasound point scatter. in 2016 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)., 16021024 , IEEE, pp. 669-673, 41st IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing 2016, Shanghai, China, 20/03/16. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP.2016.7471759

A novel array processing method for precise depth detection of ultrasound point scatter. / Diamantis, Konstantinos; Dalgarno, Paul; Greenaway, Alan Howard et al.
2016 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP). IEEE, 2016. p. 669-673 16021024 .

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