In the medical fields, ultrasound detection is often performed with piezoelectric arrays that enable one to simultaneously map the acoustic fields at several positions. In this work, we develop a novel method for transforming a single-element ultrasound detector into an effective detection array by spatially filtering the incoming acoustic fields using a binary acoustic mask coded with cyclic Hadamard patterns. By scanning the mask in front of the detector, we obtain a multiplexed measurement dataset from which a map of the acoustic field is analytically constructed. We experimentally demonstrate our method by transforming a single-element ultrasound detector into 1D arrays with up to 59 elements.
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@article{arxiv.2002.12032,
title = {Ultrasound Detection Arrays Via Coded Hadamard Apertures},
author = {Evgeny Hahamovich and Amir Rosenthal},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.12032},
year = {2020}
}